| Upcoming Symposia
The Collector’s Choice: Art on Display in American Private Collections
New York, March 26-27, 2010
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Past Symposia
Holland's Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt,
Vermeer, and Hals
New York, May 15–16, 2009
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The American Artist as Collector, from the Enlightenment
to the
Post-War Era
New York, March 6–7, 2009
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Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age
New York, November 21–22, 2008
Organized by the Center in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid, in honor of Jonathan Brown. A publication is planned.
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Power
Underestimated:
American Women
Art Collectors
Venice, April 2008
Co-hosted by the Center and the American Studies Program, The Graduate School in Languages, Cultures and Societies, Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice.
For program information, including a list of the speakers and titles of their presentations, click here.
Turning Points: Modern Art Collecting, 1913–Present
New York, March 2008
The cause for a shift in artistic taste or a realignment
of collecting patterns at times may seem untraceable.
As one generation of collectors in the early twentieth
century placed a premium on old masters, another
favored the European avant-garde, while yet a third
focused on the work of contemporary American
artists. This symposium will identify turning points in
modern art collecting during the period initiated by the
Armory Show of 1913 and explore the socioeconomic
circumstances that made these shifts all but inevitable.
Keynote Address: To Have and To Hold
Robert Storr, Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale
University
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Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830–1940
New York, May 2007
In collaboration with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, whose President Marilyn Perry has offered invaluable advice and support, the Center's first symposium "Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830-1940" was presented on May 19, 2007. Keynote speaker Neil Harris shaped the issues and led a discussion surrounding turning points in art collecting from 1830 to 1939 with special emphasis on changing trends in collecting old master paintings.
For more information, including synopses of the presentations, click here.
Click here for more photographs of the 2007 Symposium.
Inge Reist, Chief of Research Collections and Programs, and
Director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America; Linda S. Ferber, Vice President, Director of Museum Division, New-York Historical Society; Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection.
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