Holland's golden age in America : collecting the art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals / edited by Esmée Quodbach.

Other author Quodbach, Esmée editor.
Format Book
Publication[New York, N.Y.] : The Frick Collection ; University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects
Painting, Dutch--17th century. --Collectors and collecting. --United States. --History.
Painting, Dutch--17th century. --Appreciation. --United States. --History.

SeriesStudies in the history of art collecting in America ; 1
Studies in the history of art collecting in America 1. ^A1258272
Contents Introduction : a taste for Dutch art / Peter C. Sutton -- The early years : the formation of America's taste for Dutch art. "Pictures chiefly painted in oils, on boards" : Dutch paintings in colonial New York / Louisa Wood Ruby ; Robert Gilmor, Jr.'s "real" Dutch paintings / Lance Humphries ; Collecting old Dutch masters : originals, interpretations, copies, and reproductions / Annette Stott ; Wilhelm von Bode and collecting in America / Catherine B. Scallen -- The gilded age : great collections and collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Golden age paintings in the gilded age : New York collectors and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1920 / Walter Liedtke ; "They leave us as they find us, they never elevate" : John G. Johnson and the Dutch masters / Lloyd DeWitt ; Collecting Vermeer, 1887-1919 / Esmée Quodbach ; Collecting Dutch paintings in Boston / Ronni Baer ; The Dutch painting collection at the National Gallery of Art / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- The twentieth century : the dissemination of Dutch art across America and the Dutch reaction. The passionate eye of W.R. Valentiner : shaping the canon of Dutch painting in America / Dennis P. Weller ; Unexpected rivals for the Dutch : competing with the Americans for Holland's national heritage in Great Britain and elsewhere / Peter Hecht ; Golden opportunities : collecting Rembrandt in southern California / Anne T. Woollett ; Has the great age of collecting Dutch old master paintings come to an end? / Quentin Buvelot.
Abstract "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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
LCCN 2013034519
ISBN9780271062013 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271062010 (cloth : alk. paper)

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