Historic American paintings in the Brooklyn Museum of Art: A critical collection history with selected entries.
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Title
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Historic American paintings in the Brooklyn Museum of Art: A critical collection history with selected entries.
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Identifier
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AAI3189025
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identifier
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3189025
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Creator
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Carbone, Teresa A.
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Contributor
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Adviser: D. H. Barbara Weinberg
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Date
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2003
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | Museology
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Abstract
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This dissertation participates in the current interest in the critical analysis of museum collections. The subject is The Brooklyn Museum of Art's historic American painting collection from 1851 to 1951. The critical essay begins with a consideration of the collection's ideological origins in Brooklyn's social reform movement, and its actual founding through the bequest of the philanthropist Augustus Graham to fund the purchase of work by living American artists for a permanent gallery at the Brooklyn Institute. It demonstrates that Graham's introduction of art exhibitions at the Brooklyn Institute (1843 to 1849) and his interest in the patronage of American art were shaped by the reformist rhetoric of the young Brooklyn journalist Walt Whitman. The essay continues with a consideration of the reestablished American painting collection at the new Brooklyn Museum, from 1897 to 1951. It examines the expansion of the collection under a new generation of professionalized directors and curators, with particular focus on the competing agendas for contemporary and historical painting initiated respectively by the director William H. Fox and the Museum's more conservative trustees from 1914 to 1930. Finally, it considers the seminal tenure of curator of John I.H. Baur, and his role in assembling for Brooklyn one of the leading collections in the field. The essay is followed by detailed entries on selected paintings from Brooklyn's collection.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
