Tastemakers, collectors, and patrons: collecting American art in the long nineteenth century

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"A collection of essays examining the motivations and (sometimes) shared beliefs that led collectors to assemble significant holdings of American art in the nineteenth century."-- Provided by publisher.

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The patronage of Robert Gilmor, Jr. : the role of a merchant prince in defining an American school of art / Lance Humphries -- An art museum for Gotham : the Luman Reed Collection and the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts / Margaret R. Laster -- Power failure : the American Art-Union experiment / Kimberly Orcutt -- Daniel Wadsworth and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt : Connecticut's leading collectors of American landscape art / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Nicholas Longworth : early midwestern activist art patron / Lynne D. Ambrosini -- Patrons of reform : collecting the American Pre-Raphaelites / Sophie Lynford -- "Encouraging American genius" : the Corcoran Gallery of Art, from private collection to the nation's art museum / Sarah Cash -- Samuel Untermyer : the man who bought Whistler's Falling Rocket / Barbara Dayer Gallati -- "Caveat emptor" : the trade in American historical portraits in the early twentieth century / Richard Saunders -- A curator's perspective : William Preston Harrison, Childe Hassam, and a quest for legacy in California / Ilene Susan Fort -- The Grand Central Art Galleries : expanding the taste and market for American art in the 1920s and 1930s / Julie McGinnis Flanagan.