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Upcoming Symposia

Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age
New York, November 21–22, 2008

Organized by the Center in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid, in honor of Jonathan Brown. A publication is planned.

The American Artist as Collector, from the Enlightenment to the
Post-War Era

New York, March 6–7, 2009

For more information and the call for papers, click here.

Before and after the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909: America Collects Dutch Art of the Golden Age
New York, Fall 2009

The Collector’s Choice: Art on Display, from 1750 to the Present
New York, Spring 2010


Past Symposia

Power Underestimated: American Women Art Collectors
Venice, April 2008

Co-hosted by the Center and the American Studies Program, The Graduate School in Languages, Cultures and Societies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice program.

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For program information, including a list of the speakers and titles of their presentations, click here.

Turning Points: Modern Art Collecting, 1913–Present
New York, March 2008

The cause for a shift in artistic taste or a realignment of collecting patterns at times may seem untraceable. As one generation of collectors in the early twentieth century placed a premium on old masters, another favored the European avant-garde, while yet a third focused on the work of contemporary American artists. This symposium will identify turning points in modern art collecting during the period initiated by the Armory Show of 1913 and explore the socioeconomic circumstances that made these shifts all but inevitable.

Keynote Address: To Have and To Hold
Robert Storr, Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale University

For program information, click here.


Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830–1940
New York, May 2007

In collaboration with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, whose President Marilyn Perry has offered invaluable advice and support, the Center's first symposium "Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830-1940" was presented on May 19, 2007. Keynote speaker Neil Harris shaped the issues and led a discussion surrounding turning points in art collecting from 1830 to 1939 with special emphasis on changing trends in collecting old master paintings.

For more information, including synopses of the presentations, click here.

Click here for more photographs of the 2007 Symposium.

Inge Reist, Chief of Research Collections and Programs, and Director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America, Linda S. Ferber, Vice President; Director of Museum Division, New-York Historical Society, Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection.

Inge Reist, Chief of Research Collections and Programs, and Director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America; Linda S. Ferber, Vice President, Director of Museum Division, New-York Historical Society; Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection.


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