The art market and the museum: institutional collecting, display and patronage since the mid-nineteenth century

Abstract

"This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-19th century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it features contributions from a wide range of international specialists in the market for material culture as well as European modernism, and explores the origins and development of the modern Western art market and the global art networks that operated not only in Paris, London and New York, but in cities such as Glasgow, Vienna, Melbourne and Kansas City."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction / Frances Fowle and MaryKate Cleary -- Part One: The Museum and The Art Dealer -- Trusted Agents of the Government: British Dealers and the Museum, 1850-1900 / Diana Davis -- Siegfried Bing and the Fin-de-Siècle Market for Japanese Art: Dealers, Collectors & Museums / Tsuksasa Kodera -- Dubious Dealings and issues of connoisseurship: David Croal Thomson and the National Galleries of Scotland / Frances Fowle -- Etienne Bignou's Matisse and Picasso Exhibitions of the 1930s: The Gallery Show as Prototype for Museum Retrospectives / Christel H. Force -- The Middle Men of Art: Knoedler's and the building of the great American collections / Anne Helmreich, Sandra van Ginhoven, DiAndra Reyes, Kyllie King -- Part Two: Women as Art Agents and Influencers -- From Executrix to Curator: Rosalind Birnie Philip and the Whistler Estate / Alicia Hughes -- Our Woman in Cairo: Lucy Olcott Perkins as Agent for Cleveland Museum / Imogen Tedbury -- A Seed of Desire: Effie Seachrest and Women Collectors in Kansas City / Mackenzie Mallon -- Impermanent Bliss: Deaccessioning by MoMA and its Consequences / Irene Walsh -- Part Three: The Entrepreneurial Collection and the Emergence of the Private Museum -- Trade, Art Market and Museum: Alfred Chauchard's Legacy to the Louvre / Morgane Weinling -- Marjorie Merriweather Post's Hillwood and the Vision from a Private Collection to Public Museum / Rebecca Tilles -- Filling in the Gaps of his Collection? A Reassessment of Sir William Burrell's Late Collecting Practice, 1944-1957 / Isobel MacDonald -- The Private Museum: Evolving Models of Collecting and the Interplay between Collectors and the Art Market / Georgina Walker