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Women art collectors, Congresses, History, BiographyPlaces
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20th century, 19th centuryEdition | Availability |
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Power underestimated: American women art collectors
2011, Marsilio
in English
- 1st ed.
8831799495 9788831799492
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Table of Contents
Preface -- Anne L. Poulet
Introduction -- Inge Reist, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Henry James : fictional and real-life art collectors -- Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Labor pains : women, collecting, and the birth of the American art world, ca. 1876 -- Katherine Manthorne
Woman collector vs. woman appreciator : art consumption in Henry James's "The Spoils of Poynton" -- Simone Francescato -- The
collecting and patronage of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe in gilded-age New York and Newport -- Margaret R. Laster -- The
mysterious Arabella D. Huntington and her passion for collecting -- Shelley M. Bennett
Irene Leache, Annie Wood, Jean Chrysler, and the founding of the Chrysler Museum -- William J. Hennessey
Collectors in Edith Wharton's fiction -- Elisabetta Mezzani
Helen Clay Frick : charting her own course -- Inge Reist
Lillie Bliss (1864-1931) : an independent collector -- Tamara L. Follini
Doorways to paradise : Islamic art for Doris Duke's Honolulu home -- Sharon Littlefield.
Edition Notes
Proceedings of a symposium jointly organized by the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection and the Doctoral Studies School in Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, held at University of Venice, Ca' Foscari in April 2008.
Includes bibliographical references.
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