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
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.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
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| 14:30 |
Welcome |
| 14:45 |
Introductory Remarks Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection, 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 |
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| 15:45 |
Session I Inge Reist, Director of the Center for the 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 |
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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 Simone Francescato, Ph.D. Candidate, Ca' Foscari 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 Tamara Follini, College Lecturer in English, Clare College, Cambridge University 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 Inge Reist, Sacred Art in the New World of American Collecting |