Download or read book Concerning Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections Classic Reprint written by John La Farge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Concerning Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections No copies of the first volume have been delivered as yet to the present subscribers who are all friends of the enterprise or gentlemen who knew of it through its friends. Although the work was started early in 903 with a full staff and all needed facilities, it is only with the publication of the present brochure that subscriptions are solicited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections Classic Reprint written by John La Farge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections We are not all conscious of the amount and curious values of what is being gathered here, and many would be surprised at the variety of interests repre sented in the personal ownerships of works of art collected in our Western World. Some exhibitions and some notices are making us aware of this mass of treasure. Of course we can see how the necessities of a more easy or more lux urions and even a more Splendid manner of living are filling our houses with works of art, as representing these imagined necessities. But we are less ac quainted with the manner in which this bringing together of works of art has often a character which is separate from that of splendor or appearance, and is solely influenced by the choice of good taste or the special wishes of the owners. Therein the character of many of these gatherings have peculiar shapes varying through many forms and assuming very opposite directions. It might be im portant and it certainly would be very interesting to note the forms of these col lections or gatherings at the moment of their first taking shape. Later the pos sible changes of manner of life, the displacements of fortune, or of inheritance are likely to alter these conditions and to make these collections lose their personal character, to destroy the record of first origins and to mass all together in a more commonplace appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections written by John La Farge and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holland s Golden Age in America written by Esmée Quodbach and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of the Valuable Paintings and Water Colors Forming the Private Collection of William Merritt Chase N a Classic Reprint written by American Art Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Valuable Paintings and Water Colors Forming the Private Collection of William Merritt Chase, N. A This really remarkable collection of Mr. Chase's presents to the truly artistic judgment. Not merely an opportunity of a lifetime, as the saying goes, but what. Is better and rarer - what amounts to a lifetime's culling Of the world's art markets by one of the men whom the Government calls upon for expert opinion, who is familiar with all Euro pean and American art, and who exploits nothing as a collector except excellence of painting as such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of the Very Notable Collection of Japanese Color Prints written by Kenkichi Hirakawa and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Ancient and Modern Paintings and Other Objects of Art Collected by the Late William M Laffan written by American Art Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Ancient and Modern Paintings and Other Objects of Art, Collected by the Late William M. Laffan: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale U connoisseur of pictures and porcelains. His knowledge wus profound and catholic, and he was naturally endowed With the sixth scnsc of the collector, an intuition which sccql him in the delicate task of selection and attribution. Hc gathered his art trcusurcs primarily to gratify his personal predilections, and not with the purpose of selling them. His instinctive tact and wide experience corned for him an intcr national reputation. Little wonder that his judgments wcrc sought for, tlcfcrrul to, and in the majority of cases were deemed final. His catholicity is proved by this present collection, which ranges from latter-day American painting's to Italian and Flemish primitives, from curly English por traiture to Italian Renaissance, from Dutch genre to modern French Impressionism. From Lucas Crnnach to Filippo Lippi. Mr. Lull'sn lovod a beautiful work of art for itself, whether Oriental or Occidental. Schools greatly interested him, but the prestige of a more name ncithcr prejudiced nor allured him. Though. Strictly spcaking, he was a conserva tive, he was not insensiblc to the manifestations of contem porary art. He was thoroughly aware of thc pitfalls that abound for the expert, and in making an attribution he was ever prudent and resourceful. He was intimately ac quainted with all the famous collections, public and private, both in America and Europe. His memory was remarkable, hie erudition not easily matched. He was truly an amateur of eclectic tastes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by Robert Edward Dell and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum Decorative Arts written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
Download or read book The Melancholy of Masterpieces written by Flaminia Gennari Santoni and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2003 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a fresh investigation of American collecting between 1900 and 1914 and of the impact of transatlantic displacements and mass media on the public perception of old master paintings. Rather than a consideration of the itineraries of their acquisitions, this is an analysis of the political, cultural and social implication of the phenomenon and how it functioned within American society and in relation to Europe. The first three chapters of the book analyse how the American press (The New York Times, The Nation, Century, Scribner's, McClure's and the World's Work) exploited the phenomenon, turning it into a journalistic genre in which the rhetoric of nationalism and civilisation, as well as that of business and speculation, provided the style of the narrative. Two aspects of the press coverage are thoroughly investigated: the collectors' and experts' public role. Chapters four to six are devoted to a case study of an unknown, but extraordinary publishing venture, Noteworthy Paintings in
Download or read book The Burlington Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book George Catlin and His Indian Gallery written by George Catlin and published by Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.
Download or read book The Civil War and American Art written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting written by René Brimo and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of René Brimo’s classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Originally published in French in 1938, Brimo’s foundational text is a detailed examination of collecting in America from colonial times to the end of World War I, when American collectors came to dominate the European art market. This work helped shape the then-fledgling field of American art history by explaining larger cultural transformations as manifested in the collecting habits of American elites. It remains the most substantive account of the history of collecting in the United States. In his introduction, Kenneth Haltman provides a biographical study of the author and his social and intellectual milieu in France and the United States. He also explores how Brimo’s work formed a turning point and initiated a new area of academic study: the history of art collecting. Making accessible a text that has until now only been available in French, Haltman’s elegant translation of The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting sheds new critical light on the essential work of this extraordinary but overlooked scholar.
Download or read book Books in Series in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
