Book Description
Grenville L. Winthrop (1864–1943) was a lawyer and banker by profession, but his true passion was collecting art. He had the resources, the intuition, and talented advisers to help him create a collection that is distinct not only in its depth and breadth, but also in its quality. The Winthrop Collection of French, British, and American art includes the best group of Delacroix and Ingres drawings outside of France, the most significant group of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of Britain, and a world-renowned collection of Sargent watercolors. Some seventy paintings and twice as many drawings and watercolors by more than fifty French, British, and American artists will be featured in this selection from the legendary Winthrop Collection, bequeathed in 1943 to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Masterpieces by David, Ingres, Gericault, Chassériau, and Moreau will be seen alongside great works by Blake, Rossetti, and Burne-Jones, as well as Homer, Sargent, and Whistler. They are discussed in the catalogue by more than sixty authors, all of whom are among the leading authorities in their various fields
From the Publisher
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition that will be held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France, March 15 to May 26, 2003; The National Gallery, London, June 25 to September 14, 2003; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 20, 2003, to January 25, 2004.
About the Author
Stephan Wolohojian is Associate Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University FROM THE PUBLISHER
For the Winthrop collection's international debut exhibition, curators at the Fogg Art Museum of the Harvard University Art Museums, headed by Stephan Wolohojian, organized the selection and invited more than sixty specialists to write on artworks in their particular area of expertise. Works include such highlights in their creator's oeuvre as Jacques-Louis David's sketchbooks for The Coronation of Napoleon and the Crowning of Josephine, Theodore Gericault's Mutiny on the Raft of the Medusa, Vincent van Gogh's The Blue Cart, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Odalisque with the Slave, William Blake's illustrations for the Divine Comedy, Dante Gabriel Rosetti's Blessed Damozel, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Silver. In addition, an essay by Wolohojian provides a fascinating and informative description of Winthrop and the growth of his collection.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Published to accompany a traveling exhibition (Muse des Beaux Arts, Lyon; National Gallery, London; Metropolitan Museum, New York), this is the first comprehensive book on Grenville L. Winthrop's remarkable art collection, which he donated to his alma mater, Harvard University, in 1937. Though Winthrop also collected Asian art and fine ceramics, his collection of 19th-century paintings and drawings is remarkable in its depth and breadth. Encouraged by his art agent and friend Martin Birnbaum, Winthrop began acquiring 19th-century drawings, viewing them as an underappreciated area of collecting. Focusing on groups of images by key figures, he amassed a large collection of works by Ingres, for example. Drawings and paintings by Jacques Louis David, Gustave Moreau, William Blake, and the English Pre-Raphaelites, as well as Americans such as John Singer Sargent, deepened his collection. With comprehensive catalog entries and illustrations on each of the 219 works of art written by 63 scholars and curators, this volume is a strong contribution to the literature. Recommended for museum and academic libraries that support research in art history.-Sandra Rothenberg, Framingham State Coll., MA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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