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OLD MASTER PAINTINGS North America IN Comprehensive Guide ^Tw toLocatingandEnjoying Over3000 Masterpieces by50 GreatArtists JOHN MORSE D. ISBN 0-89659-050-X S 9.95 1 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS North America IN HOUSHD IN OVHR one hundred twenty nuiseums throughout the United States and ( anada are more than threethousand paintings by the masters of European art. Here in this earefully researched and lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive guide to locating and enjoying tiieirgreat paintings, MASTHR PAINTINGS IN NORTH AMER- ICA reveals the astonishing variety and qual- ity of North American collections, the results of over one hundred years of inspired col- lecting by individual collectors and public institutions. It may be no surprise that the Metropolitan Museum and the Prick Collec- tion in New York and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. have a large number of El Grecos, for example. But how many of us are aware that works by El Greco can also be found in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California: Sarasota, Florida; Glen Falls, New York;and inOttawa and Montreal;' The only guide of its kind, MASTER PAINTINGS IN NORTH AMERICA provides a complete and fully captioned listing of every painting in U.S. and Canadian collec- tions by fifty selected old master painters- from the early Renaissance to the mid- nineteenth century. This volume also con- tains a valuable geographical index which provides vital museum-going information: addresses, hours, and admission fees, as well as listing of other important painters repre- sented in the museums. In addition to helping the reader locate these masterpieces, MASTER PAINTINGS IN NORTH AMERICA also provides the means for more fully enjoying these great Continufdon hackJlap OLD MASTER PAINTINGS North America IN OLD MASTER PAINTINGS IN NORTH AMERICA Over 3000 Masterpieces by50 Great Artists JOHN MORSE D. ABBEVILLE PRESS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK • • DEDICATION To Edgar P. Richardson, who started me on this search. To the memory of William R. Valentiner, who encouraged me to continueit. Tomywife Dorothy,formermanagementconsultant,without whose professional help it would never have been finished. JDM Library ofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Morse,John D 1906- Old MasterPaintings In North America Includesindex. 1. Painting-United States. 2. Painting-Canada. I. Title. N510.M63 1979 759.94'074'01 79-1056 ISBN 0-89659-050-X Copyright © 7979 by Cross River Press, Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-AmericanCopyrightConventions. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedin anyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying,recording,orby any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writingfrom thePub- lisher. Inquiries should be addressed to Abbeville Press, Inc., 505 ParkAvenue,New York 10022.PrintedandboundinJapan. CONTENTS FraAngelico 9 FrancescoGuardi 157 GiovanniBellini 13 FransHals 161 RichardParkesBonington 17 MeindertHobbema 165 HieronymusBosch 21 WilliamHogarth 177 AlessandroBotticelli 25 HansHolbein 181 PieterBruegel 29 PieterdeHooch 185 Canaletto 41 SirThomasLawrence 189 Jean-Baptiste-SimeonChardin 45 HansMemling 195 Claude 49 BartolomeEstebanMurillo 199 JohnConstable 53 NicolasPoussin 203 Jean-Baptiste-CamilleCorot 59 SirHenryRaeburn 217 GustaveCourbet 67 Raphael 223 LucasCranach 81 Rembrandt 227 HonoreDaumier 85 SirJoshuaReynolds 233 GerardDavid 89 PeterPaulRubens 239 Jacques-LouisDavid 93 JacobvanRuisdael 247 EugeneDelacroix 97 GiovanniBattistaTiepolo 253 AlbrechtDurer 103 Tintoretto 259 AnthonyvanDyck 107 Titian 273 JanvanEyck 121 JosephMallordWilliamTurner 277 Jean-HonoreFragonard 125 Velasquez 283 ThomasGainsborough 131 JanVermeer 287 Giotto 137 Veronese 291 FranciscodeGoya 141 Jean-AntoineWatteau 295 JanvanGoyen 147 GeographicalIndextoMuseums 301 ElGreco 151 . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WITHOUT THE GENEROUS COOPERATION of the more than one hundred museumswho sent usinformationabouttheirholdings,thisrevised,updated,andex- panded edition of Old Masters in America (Rand McNally, 1955) would have been impossible. We thank all their staffmembersprofoundly.Mostheartwarmingwasthe factthatthemuseumdirectors,curators,registrars,andotherstaffmembersmadethis considerable effort to share their treasures withartists,scholars,dealers,thetraveling public,andwiththeirfellowmuseumswhoare planningloanexhibitions.Specifically, we want to thank those many individualswhosharedwithusoverthephoneand by lettertheirknowledgeaboutparticularpicturesandtheirprideinthem. Sources THE TRUSTY ELEVENTH EDITION ofthe EncyclopediaBriiannicaprovedas useful as ever. The venerableCenturyCyclopediaofNameswasindispensible.Master- piecesofArt. the official catalogueofthe 1939World'sFair,edited byW. R.Valen- tiner, washelpful, as was the catalogue,Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Artand Civilization, publishedin 1960jointlybyTheDetroitInstituteofArtsand theCentre National de Recherches Flamands. Nathaniel Burt's Palaces for the People (Little, Brown, 1977)providedessentialinformationaboutnewinuseums,andthe 1977edition of the Oxford Companion to .Art was a valuablesourceofupdated information. The OfficialMuseum Directory, published by theAmericanAssociationofMuseums,was, ofcourse,constantlyathandforreference. A number ofmuseums have recently published exemplary catalogues and hand- books.Mostusefulamongthesewere: TheArt InstituteofChicago,The WorldofArtLibrary.Series,Thamesand Hudson,1977 TheClevelandMuseumofArt.Handbook. 1970 TheFrickCollection,HandbookofthePaintings. 1971 LosAngelesCountyMuseumofArl,Handbook. 1977 TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,Guide. 1972 The Minneapolis Institute ofArts,A Guide to the Galleries. 1970. Also, EuropeanPaintingsintheMinneapolisInstituteofArts. 1963 TheMontrealMuseumofFineArts,Guide. 1977 NationalGalleryofArt.BriefGuide. 1976 MemorialArtGalleryoftheUniversityofRochester.TreasuresfromRoch- ester, 1971 Timken Art Gallery, San Diego, European Paintings in the Timken Art Gallery. 1969. Also.European Paintings in theCollectionofthePut- namFoundation. 1977 ToledoMuseumofAn,EuropeanPaintings, 1976 Wadsworth Atheneum, TheNetherlands and the German-Speaking Coun- tries,1978 JOHN D MORSE DOROTHY W.MORSE
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