Modern Art on Display

The Legacies of Six Collectors

K. Porter Aichele

Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss and Paul Cézanne; Etta Cone and Henri Matisse; G. David Thompson and Paul Klee. The case studies are linked by a thematic focus on the integral relationship between the collectors’ acquired knowledge about the work they amassed and their innovative display models. This focus brings a new perspective to the history of collecting and interpreting modern art in America for nearly half a century (1915-1960). By examining the books the collectors themselves read and analyzing archival photographs of their displays, the author makes a case for the historical significance of how the collectors presented the art they acquired before their collections were institutionalized.

University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press

Pages: 306 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-61149-616-1 • Hardback • May 2016 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-61149-617-8 • eBook • May 2016 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Subjects: Art / Museum Studies, Art / General, Art / History / General

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The Legacies of Six Collectors

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Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss and Paul Cézanne; Etta Cone and Henri Matisse; G. David Thompson and Paul Klee. The case studies are linked by a thematic focus on the integral relationship between the collectors’ acquired knowledge about the work they amassed and their innovative display models. This focus brings a new perspective to the history of collecting and interpreting modern art in America for nearly half a century (1915-1960). By examining the books the collectors themselves read and analyzing archival photographs of their displays, the author makes a case for the historical significance of how the collectors presented the art they acquired before their collections were institutionalized.

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University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press

Pages: 306 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-61149-616-1 • Hardback • May 2016 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-61149-617-8 • eBook • May 2016 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Subjects: Art / Museum Studies, Art / General, Art / History / General

Author

K. Porter Aichele is professor emerita at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Collectors as Connoisseurs and Curators
1 Duncan Phillips, Augustus Vincent Tack, and a Collection in the Making
2 Albert C. Barnes, Chaim Soutine, and the Art in Seeing
3 Albert Eugene Gallatin, Juan Gris, and the Patron as Painter
4 Lillie Bliss, Paul Cézanne, and the Making of an Advocate
5 Etta Cone’s Collaboration with Henri Matisse
6 G. David Thompson, Paul Klee, and Display as Philanthropy
Conclusion: Legacies of Learning and Display
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Modern Art on Display

The Legacies of Six Collectors

K. Porter Aichele

Modern Art on Display

The Legacies of Six Collectors

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