Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9780894682117

Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.

Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin
Author: Tiffany Bell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300106335

"New scholarship and interpretation of Flavin's work also appears in the form of three critical essays by experts and an extensive chronology, comprehensive bibliography, and exhibition history. In addition, this book includes Flavin's text, "'...in daylight or cool white.' an autobiographical sketch," originally published in Artforum in 1965, and two interviews with the artist - one from 1972 and the other from 1982."--BOOK JACKET.

America's National Gallery of Art

America's National Gallery of Art
Author: Philip Kopper
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0691172889

America's National Gallery of Art, a 75th-anniversary history of the nation's art museum, founded by Andrew W. Mellon and opened to the public on March 17, 1941. Presenting an overview of the Gallery's first fifty years and a thematic look at the transformation the museum has undergone since 1992, the book offers extensive photographic essays that highlight the West Building, newly renovated East Building, and Sculpture Garden as well as the magnificent art collection and selected special exhibitions. The book includes accounts of the founding benefactors and four directors--David Finley, John Walker, J. Carter Brown, and now Earl A. Powell III--and discusses the Gallery's historic 2014 agreement to accept custody of the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors

William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors
Author: William R. Johnston
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1999-10-25
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780801860409

Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."--BOOK JACKET.

Renaissance Medals: France, Germany, The Netherlands, and England

Renaissance Medals: France, Germany, The Netherlands, and England
Author: John Graham Pollard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Medals
ISBN: 9780894683374

The National Gallery of Art houses the single most important collection of portrait medals in the United States. This two-volume catalogue examines in depth these holdings, comprising more than nine hundred medals. Providing detailed technical information--including the alloy composition of each medal--drawn from careful research, observation, and analysis, Renaissance Medals breaks new ground in the scholarly literature. Volume 2 documents the Gallery's collection of German medals of the sixteenth century, French baroque medals, and smaller, though no less significant, groups of Netherlandish and English medals.