Download or read book History of the Portrait Collection Independence National Historical Park written by Doris Devine Fanelli and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a history and catalog of the portraits by Charles Willson Peale, who painted heroes of the American revolution, founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, and individuals who contributed art and letters. The three chapters by Fanelli (Cultural Resources Management, Independence National Historical Park) discuss the collection from its inception through the period in which the shrine that housed it became a museum. Each of the 250 entries (mostly b&w, with a few in color) in the catalog includes a brief biography of the subject, a physical description of the painting, the circumstances under which it was created, and its provenance. They are arranged alphabetically by sitter. Edited by Karie Diethorn, chief curator, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Over 400 illustrations.

Download or read book Deaccessioning and Its Discontents written by Martin Gammon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.

Download or read book Charles Willson Peale written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Art and the Empire City written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book History of the Portrait Collection Independence National Historical Park written by Doris Devine Fanelli and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In Pursuit of Fame written by Lillian B. Miller and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalogue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, November 1992-February 1993. Miller's biography of American artist Peale traces the course of his artistic development, from the Englightenment principles of his father (the eminent artist Charles Willson Peale) through the British portrait tradition, French neoclassicism, and Italian Renaissance and Baroque masters, and places in context some of his more important works. With an essay by Carol Eaton Hevner on "The Paintings of Rembrandt Peale: Character and Conventions." Includes 32 color plates, 138 bandw figures. Production of the highest quality. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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