Collecting Spanish art: Spain's Golden Age and America's Gilded Age

Contents

"The Spanish turn": the discovery of Spanish art in the United States, 1887-1920 / Richard L. Kagan -- "Civil dissension, bad government, and religious intolerance": Spanish display at the Philadelphia Centennial and in Gilded Age private collections / M. Elizabeth Boone -- The Spanish presence at Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition and Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition / Javier Barón -- "Here one feels existence": Isabella Stewart Gardner's Spanish cloister / Ellen Prokop -- Henry Clay Frick's Galerie Espagnole / Susan Grace Galassi -- Charles Deering and the Palacio Maricel in Sitges (Barcelona) / Bonaventura Bassegoda and Ignasi Domènech -- Hearst and Spain / Mary L. Levkoff -- Archer Milton Huntington and the Hispanic Society of America / Marcus B. Burke -- Oil and canvas: the Algur H. Meadows Collection of Spanish art / Mark A. Roglán -- Competing for a Velázquez: New York collectors after the Spanish master / José Luis Colomer -- An early appreciation of Murillo / Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt -- Early collecting of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's paintings in the United States (1800-1925) / Ignacio Cano and Casilda Ybarra -- Collecting Goya / María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco.