William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors

Johnston, William R.

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Editorial: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1999

0801860407 / 9780801860409

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Cloth, xvi, 309 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Fine DJ. *** "In the mid-nineteenth century, Baltimore businessman William Thompson Walters began to patronize the artists of Maryland. Today, the museum that bears his name -- Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery -- excels in fields as diverse as Egyptian bronzes, Byzantine silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval carved ivories, early Renaissance paintings, Sevres porcelains, Islamic metalwork, and Chinese ceramics. 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. With this new book, William Johnston, the Walters's curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, restores William and Henry Walters to their rightful place among America's great art collectors. Drawing upon the knowledge of the early museum staff and gathering valuable information from the few other available sources, Johnston has painstakingly recreated the life and world of the Walterses. Though Henry Walters moved easily in Baltimore and New York social circles, Johnston explains, he kept much to himself and generally purchased art away from the public's eye. Despite the Walterses' reticence, they had a significant influence on the development of American tastes and museums -- William in his role as the first chairman of the Committee on Works of Art for the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Henry as the second vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Their personal collection differs from those of other, more familiar collectors, such as J. P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, in that Henry Walters intended from the very first that the collection form a museum to serve the public. When the museum first opened its doors in 1934, Johnston relates, many visitors were surprised by the collection's size and by its comprehensive representation of the history of art from the third millennium b.c. to the early twentieth century. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and sixteen pages of full color, this book will fascinate anyone interested in Baltimore history, the history of museums and art collecting in America, and the art and culture of nineteenth-century America. / William R. Johnston is associate director and curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art at the Walters Art Gallery." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

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Título
William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors
Autor
Johnston, William R.
Editorial
Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Año de publicación
1999
Estado
Near Fine
Sobrecubierta
Fine
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0801860407
ISBN 13
9780801860409
Catálogos de vendedores
Museums, New Books, Patronage::Individual Collectors, USA::4. Late 19th Century, USA::States::Maryland, XL: Extra Large

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