MADE IN THE USA: Collecting American Art during the Long Nineteenth Century
Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, NY, USA
3-4 March 2017
This two-day symposium focuses on collections of American art formed during the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and concludes with a conversation with Alice Walton, the greatest living collector of American art and the founder of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Presentations not only examine the tastes and activities of private collectors and dealers, but also explore specific areas of collecting, such as Connecticut collectors, patrons and collectors of American Pre-Raphaelite art, collections of private clubs, and the trade in faked Colonial portraits.
Linda S. Ferber (Director Emerita and Senior Art Historian, New-York Historical Society), Collecting American Art: Building a National Narrative
Lance Humphries (Executive Director, Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, Baltimore), The Patronage of Robert Gilmor, Jr.: The Role of a Merchant Prince in Defining an American School of Art
Margaret R. Laster (Independent Scholar), Art for the Public: Luman Reed, Jonathan Sturges, and the New-York Gallery of Fine Arts
Kimberly Orcutt (Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum), The American Art-Union Experiment
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Daniel Wadsworth and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt: Collecting American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Sarah Cash (Associate Curator of American and British Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Encouraging American Genius: William Wilson Corcoran, Collector
Sophie Lynford (Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven), Realism and Reform in American Pre-Raphaelitism: Sources of Patronage and Dissent
Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort (Professor Emerita, American University, Paris), Samuel P. Avery as an Agent, Dealer, and Expert in Building American Art Collections
Jay Cantor (President, Jay E. Cantor Fine Art Consulting, Inc., New York), Every Patron a Pericles: New York Clubs and the Promotion of American Art
Richard H. Saunders (Walter Cerf Distinguished College Professor and Director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont), Caveat Emptor: The American Historical Portrait in the Early Twentieth Century
Barbara Dayer Gallati (Curator Emerita of American Art, Brooklyn Museum), Samuel Untermyer: The Man Who Bought Whistler’s “Falling Rocket”
Alice Walton, Collector and Founder of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, in conversation with Linda S. Ferber