Duncan And Marjorie Phillips And Americas First Museum Of Modern Art

Author : Pamela Carter-Birken
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648892604
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America’s First Museum of Modern Art written by Pamela Carter-Birken and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world—a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the first museum of modern art in America. It opened in the grand Phillips family home in 1921, eight years before New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and only a few weeks after they wed. Duncan took the lead in developing the collection and showcasing it. Marjorie kept space and time to paint. Duncan considered Marjorie a partner in the museum even though she was not directly involved in all purchasing and presentation decisions. To him, her influence was omnipresent. Although Duncan’s writings on artists and art history were widely published, he chose not to provide much instruction for visitors to the museum. Instead, he combined signature methods of displaying art which live on at The Phillips Collection. Phillips had viewers in mind when he hung American art with European art—or art of the past with modern art, and he frequently rearranged works to stimulate fresh encounters. With unfettered access to archival material, author Pamela Carter-Birken argues that The Phillips Collection’s relevancy comes from Duncan Phillips’s commitment to providing optimal conditions for personal exploration of art. In-depth collecting of certain artists was one of Phillips’s methods of encouraging independent thinking in viewers. Paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Jacob Lawrence, and Mark Rothko provide testament to the power of America’s first museum of modern art.

Author : Pamela Carter-Birken
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648891076
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art [B&W] written by Pamela Carter-Birken and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world-a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the first museum of modern art in America. It opened in the grand Phillips family home in 1921, eight years before New York City's Museum of Modern Art and only a few weeks after they wed. Duncan took the lead in developing the collection and showcasing it. Marjorie kept space and time to paint. Duncan considered Marjorie a partner in the museum even though she was not directly involved in all purchasing and presentation decisions. To him, her influence was omnipresent. Although Duncan's writings on artists and art history were widely published, he chose not to provide much instruction for visitors to the museum. Instead, he combined signature methods of displaying art which live on at The Phillips Collection. Phillips had viewers in mind when he hung American art with European art-or art of the past with modern art, and he frequently rearranged works to stimulate fresh encounters. With unfettered access to archival material, author Pamela Carter-Birken argues that The Phillips Collection's relevancy comes from Duncan Phillips's commitment to providing optimal conditions for personal exploration of art. In-depth collecting of certain artists was one of Phillips's methods of encouraging independent thinking in viewers. Paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Jacob Lawrence, and Mark Rothko provide testament to the power of America's first museum of modern art.

Author : Pamela Carter-Birken
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648892127
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art [Premium Color] written by Pamela Carter-Birken and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world-a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the first museum of modern art in America. It opened in the grand Phillips family home in 1921, eight years before New York City's Museum of Modern Art and only a few weeks after they wed. Duncan took the lead in developing the collection and showcasing it. Marjorie kept space and time to paint. Duncan considered Marjorie a partner in the museum even though she was not directly involved in all purchasing and presentation decisions. To him, her influence was omnipresent. Although Duncan's writings on artists and art history were widely published, he chose not to provide much instruction for visitors to the museum. Instead, he combined signature methods of displaying art which live on at The Phillips Collection. Phillips had viewers in mind when he hung American art with European art-or art of the past with modern art, and he frequently rearranged works to stimulate fresh encounters. With unfettered access to archival material, author Pamela Carter-Birken argues that The Phillips Collection's relevancy comes from Duncan Phillips's commitment to providing optimal conditions for personal exploration of art. In-depth collecting of certain artists was one of Phillips's methods of encouraging independent thinking in viewers. Paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Jacob Lawrence, and Mark Rothko provide testament to the power of America's first museum of modern art.

Author : Phillips Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phillips Collection written by Phillips Collection and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjorie Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393022900
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marjorie Phillips and Her Paintings written by Marjorie Phillips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marjorie Phillips painted almost every day of her life. The first painting that she sold was to a man who not only admired her paintings, but admired Marjorie herself so much that he very soon proposed marriage.

Author : Duncan Phillips
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080902
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eye of Duncan Phillips written by Duncan Phillips and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a survey of the major European and American works in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and a guide to the museum's holdings and significance. A study of the history of taste in twentieth-century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) as a critic and collector.

Author : Eliza E. Rathbone
Publisher : Third Millennium Information Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781903942086
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Beyond Isms written by Eliza E. Rathbone and published by Third Millennium Information Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phillips Collection, in Washington, D.C., was the first museum of modern art in the United States and today stands as a legacy to its founder and creator, Duncan Phillips.

Author : Ruth W. Spiegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phillips Collection in the Making, 1920-1930 written by Ruth W. Spiegel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Lee Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029551
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists written by Ann Lee Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three decades, Ann Lee Morgan offers an informative, insightful, and long overdue resource on our nation's artistic heritage. Featuring 945 alphabetically arranged entries, here is an indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism. Readers will find a wealth of factual detail and insightful analysis of the leading American painters, ranging from John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, and Mary Cassatt to such modern masters as Jackson Pollack, Romare Bearden, and Andy Warhol. Morgan offers razor-sharp entries on sculptors ranging from Alexander Calder to Louise Nevelson, on photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Walker Evans, and Ansel Adams, and on contemporary installation artists, including video master Bill Viola. In addition, the dictionary provides entries on important individuals connected to the art scene, including collectors such as Peggy Guggenheim and critics such as Clement Greenberg. Morgan also examines notable American institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles, and movements. The range of coverage is indeed impressive, but equally important is the quality of analysis that appears in entry after entry. Morgan gives readers a wealth of trustworthy and authoritative information as well as perceptive, well-informed criticism of artists and their work. In addition, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced, so readers can easily find additional information on any topic of interest. Beautifully written, filled with fascinating historical background and penetrating insight, The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists is an essential one-volume resource for art lovers everywhere.

Author : Flavia Frigeri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429643756
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era written by Flavia Frigeri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new globally oriented approach to art, artists, museums and movements of the postwar era (1945–70). Specifically, this book bridges the gap between historical artistic centers, such as Paris and New York, and peripheral loci. Through case studies, previously unknown networks, circulations, divides and controversies are brought to light. From the development of Ethiopian modernism, to the showcase of Brazilian modernity, this book provides readers with a new set of coordinates and a reassessment of well-trodden art historical narratives around modernism. This book will be of interest to scholars in art historiography, art history, exhibition and curatorial studies, modern art and globalization.