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Underestimated:
American Women
Art Collectors
An international conference jointly organized by The Graduate School in Languages, Cultures and Societies, Ca’ Foscari,
University of Venice and the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, New York.
Venice
Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, 2008
For more information contact us at center@frick.org. The full program is available in PDF format.
The Symposium is made possible through the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Agnes Gund.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ca’ Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3825/e
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| 14:30 |
Welcome |
| 14:45 |
Introductory Remarks
Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection, New York
and Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Professor of Anglo-American
Literature and Director of the Graduate School
in Languages, Cultures and Societies, Ca’ Foscari |
| 15:00 |
Alide Cagidemetrio, Dean, Professor of
Anglo-American Literature, Ca’ Foscari, presiding
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Keynote Address
Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art History, Graduate Center of the City University of New York —
Labor Pains: Women, Collecting, and the Birth
of the New York Art World after the Civil War |
| 15:45 |
Session I
Inge Reist, Director of the Center for the
History of Collecting in America, Frick Art Reference
Library and The Frick Collection, New York, presiding
Margaret Laster, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center
of the City University of New York, The Public and Private Collections of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828-1887)
Break
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Henry James, Galleries, and Women Collectors
William J. Hennessey, President and Director, Chrysler
Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Irene Leache, Anna Cogswell Wood, Jean Outland,
Chrysler and the Founding of the Chrysler Museum
Elisabetta Mezzani, Ph.D. Candidate, Ca’ Foscari,
Collections in Edith Wharton |
| 19:00 |
Panel Discussion I
Moderator: Katherine Manthorne |
Friday, April 18, 2008
Auditorium Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro 3689
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| 10:00 |
Session II
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, presiding
Shelley Bennett, Senior Research Associate, The
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical
Gardens, San Marino, California
The Magnificent Arabella D. Huntington (1850-1924):
Her Passion for Collecting and the Burgeoning of an
International Art Network circa 1900
Simone Francescato, Ph.D., Ca’ Foscari
Woman Collector / Woman Appreciator: The Collection
and the Appreciation of Art Objects in Henry James’s
The Spoils of Poynton
Inge Reist,
Charting Her Own Course: Helen Clay Frick
(1888-1984) as a Collector
Lunch break |
| 14:00 |
Session II
Esmée Quodbach, Assistant to the
Director of the Center for the History of Collecting
in America, Frick Art Reference Library and The
Frick Collection, New York, presiding
Tamara Follini, College Lecturer in English, Clare College, Cambridge University
Lillie Bliss (1864-1931): An Independent Collector
Lindsay Pollock, Writer and Journalist, Bloomberg News, New York
Dealer, Tastemaker and Champion of American Art:
Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970)
Sharon Littlefield, Curator, Shangri-La, Honolulu, Hawaii,
Doorways to Paradise: Islamic Art for Doris Duke’s
Honolulu Home
Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Collector and
Philanthropist, Dallas, Texas,
Perspectives in Art Collecting Today |
| 16:45 |
Panel Discussion II
Moderator: Rosella Mamoli Zorzi |
| 18:00 |
Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Welcome by the Guardian Grando
Arch. Franco Posocco
Inge Reist,
Sacred Art in the New World of American Collecting |
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