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The House Museum: The Intersection of Public and Private Art Collecting
As institutions that open a door to the private lives and thoughts of art collectors, house museums offer unique visual and intellectual experiences to their visitors. Most are universally adored, in part because of their intimate settings and non-didactic display of works of art, and, also in part, because they foster a vicarious experience of art collecting in a time gone by. Not all house museums are created equal, however, nor are they intended to be. Any patron of the Frick Art Reference Library who has examined its extensive holdings of catalogues and chronicles of house museums in America and Europe well knows the vast range of possibilities in defining the museum’s mission, its philosophy of display, and its fidelity to the founder’s time and taste. As the Frick Art Reference Library is now formalizing its position as a Center for the History of Collecting in America, an examination of the role house museums have and will play in this growing field of study will be invaluable.
Moderator
Joseph Rishel, Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900, the John G. Johnson Collection,
and the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Panel
Trudy Coxe, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, The Preservation Society of Newport County
Anne Hawley, Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Carol Togneri, Senior Curator, Norton Simon Museum
Andrew McClellan, Associate Professor of Art History, Tufts University
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