Syllabus
Art collection of banker John Pierpont Morgan in New York
Private Fenway Court Museum in Boston by collector Isabella Stewart Gardner
Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University and Paul Sachs Museum Course
Art collection by industrialist Henry Clay Frick in New York
George Gray Barnard's collection of medieval art and the creation of The Cloisters in New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
The Jewish Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and Ronald Lauder's Neue Gallerie on Fifth Avenue in New York City
The National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
European Art on the Pacific Coast - San Francisco Museum of Art and San Diego Museum of Art
Published by William Randolph Hearst and his California residence in San Simenon
Collection of railroad magnate Henry Huntington and his wife Arabella in San Marino and collection of industrialist Norton Simon in Pasadena
The collections of the industrialist Jean Paul Getty in Los Angeles
Annotation
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the origin and development of museum and gallery institutions in the USA in a sociocultural context. The formation and growth of American collections are based on European patterns, and from this perspective, American collections will be examined.
It will be reminded how American collectors acquired European masterpieces in their collections, what ties they had to the European art market, what contacts they maintained with art dealers during the period. The course is structured on the basis of chronology, typology, and meaning of selected museum and gallery institutions.
The architectural form of museum and gallery objects, the character of the collection, and its development will be analyzed, as well as personalities associated with it will be discussed.