Book Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University, celebrated for its pre-eminent museums-the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, and now the Sackler Museum-has also played a crucial role in educating many of the most influential critics, curators, teachers, collectors, and artists active today. Scholarcritic Rosalind Krauss, artist Robert Motherwell, Metropolitan Museum director Phillipe de Montebello, and National Gallery director J.Carter Brown are all Harvard alumni.
This book documents the history of the Harvard Art Museums and recaptures the fascinating characters-teachers, students, and administrators, including Edward Forbes, Paul Sachs, and Charles Eliot Norton-who molded the collection of nineteenth-and twentiethcentury art at the university. They acquired modern classics, painstakingly chosen with an eye toward timelessness rather than avantgarde immediacy. The 130 works reproduced in this book thus represent what is likely to prove the most enduring art of the last one hundred years.
Here are works by such acknowledged European greats as Monet, Pissarro, van Gogh, and Cezanne and by American masters like Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Jackson Pollock, and David Smith. The work of more contemporary artists abounds as well, with Philip Guston, Julian Schnabel, Enzo Cucchi, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Diane Arbus, Jane O'Neal, and others amply represented. Much of this important and powerful art has never been published before.
The formation of this unique wide-ranging collection and Harvard's vital influence as teacher of generations of art lovers are detailed in the lively text by the university's assistant director for curatorial affairs, Caroline A. Jones, and in accompanying essays by John Rosenfield, current acting director, and John Coolidge, former director, of the Harvard Art Museums.
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Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1985 |
Authors | Jones CA |
Publisher | Abbeville Press Publishers |
City | New York, NY |
ISBN | 0896595927 |
Abstract | Harvard University, celebrated for its pre-eminent museums-the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, and now the Sackler Museum-has also played a crucial role in educating many of the most influential critics, curators, teachers, collectors, and artists active today. Scholarcritic Rosalind Krauss, artist Robert Motherwell, Metropolitan Museum director Phillipe de Montebello, and National Gallery director J.Carter Brown are all Harvard alumni. This book documents the history of the Harvard Art Museums and recaptures the fascinating characters-teachers, students, and administrators, including Edward Forbes, Paul Sachs, and Charles Eliot Norton-who molded the collection of nineteenth-and twentiethcentury art at the university. They acquired modern classics, painstakingly chosen with an eye toward timelessness rather than avantgarde immediacy. The 130 works reproduced in this book thus represent what is likely to prove the most enduring art of the last one hundred years. Here are works by such acknowledged European greats as Monet, Pissarro, van Gogh, and Cezanne and by American masters like Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Jackson Pollock, and David Smith. The work of more contemporary artists abounds as well, with Philip Guston, Julian Schnabel, Enzo Cucchi, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Diane Arbus, Jane O'Neal, and others amply represented. Much of this important and powerful art has never been published before. The formation of this unique wide-ranging collection and Harvard's vital influence as teacher of generations of art lovers are detailed in the lively text by the university's assistant director for curatorial affairs, Caroline A. Jones, and in accompanying essays by John Rosenfield, current acting director, and John Coolidge, former director, of the Harvard Art Museums. |