{"product_id":"tastemakers-collectors-and-patrons-9780271095240","title":"Tastemakers Collectors and Patrons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons explores the dynamic landscape of American art collecting in the United States from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The geographic range of collecting histories presented in this publication spans the country, including the Eastern Seaboard, the Old South, the Midwest, and the West Coast.   In this volume, the contributing scholars investigate individual collectors and collectives whose missions to create regional and national collecting communities in the United States encouraged civic philanthropy in the fine arts. Key themessuch as the creation of an American school distinct from, yet rooted in, European tradition as well as the trials of forming publicly supported museumsreverberate throughout the publication. Essays examine early patrons, collectors, and museum founders; the impact of sectionalism, the Civil War, and reform on American collecting efforts; and the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of artists, colle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Deutch and Margaret R. Laster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Deutch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Collecting American Art During the Long Nineteenth Century \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda S. Ferber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrafting a Cultural Identity: Early Tastemakers Collectors, and Patrons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Patronage of Robert Gilmor, Jr.: The Role of a Merchant Prince in Defining an American School of Art \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLance Humphries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. An Art Museum for Gotham: The Luman Reed Collection and the New- York Gallery of the Fine Arts \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret R. Laster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Power Failure: The American Art- Union Experiment \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKimberly Orcutt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Daniel Wadsworth and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt: Connecticut’s Leading Collectors of American Landscape Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Mankin Kornhauser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurbulence of Taste in Mid- Nineteenth- Century America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Nicholas Longworth: Early Midwestern Activist Art Patron\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynne D. Ambrosini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Patrons of Reform: Collecting the American Pre- Raphaelites\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophie Lynford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. “Encouraging American Genius”: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, from Private Collection to the Nation’s Art Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Cash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePromoting, Advancing, and Collecting American Art at the Turn of the Century and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Samuel Untermyer: The Man Who Bought Whistler’s Falling Rocket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Dayer Gallati\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. “Caveat Emptor”: The Trade in American Historical Portraits in the Early Twentieth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Saunders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. A Curator’s Perspective: William Preston Harrison, Childe Hassam, and a Quest for Legacy in California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlene Susan Fort\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. The Grand Central Art Galleries: Expanding the Taste and Market for American Art in the 1920s and 1930s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie McGinnis Flanagan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400821449047,"sku":"9780271095240","price":63.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271095240.jpg?v=1730471658","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tastemakers-collectors-and-patrons-9780271095240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}