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The Evolving House Museum
Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now
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This volume explores twelve house museums, created over more than two centuries, and founded across the globe. What motivates collectors to establish independent house museums instead of donating their collections to preexisting institutions? How have collectors’ original intentions manifested themselves in their museums? Have founder mandates aided the survival or caused the demise of their institutions? How have house museums’ collections or buildings evolved over time? Must museums reinterpret their collections to remain relevant to contemporary and diverse audiences? In seeking to answer these questions, the volume’s authors share the unique stories behind the creation and evolution of these fascinating institutions, and the intriguing stories of the exceptional individuals who founded them.
Contributors: Aistė Bimbirytė, Eliza Butler, Chih-En Chen, Enrico Colle, Allegra Davis, Marissa Hershon, Mia Laufer, Ulrike Müller, Nadine Nour el Din, Inge Reist, Anne Nellis Richter, and Georgina S. Walker.
Contributors: Aistė Bimbirytė, Eliza Butler, Chih-En Chen, Enrico Colle, Allegra Davis, Marissa Hershon, Mia Laufer, Ulrike Müller, Nadine Nour el Din, Inge Reist, Anne Nellis Richter, and Georgina S. Walker.
Margaret Iacono Wertz, (MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York) specializes in northern art and the history of collecting. She was formerly Associate Research Curator at The Frick Collection, New York (2000–2019).
Esmée Quodbach (MA, Utrecht University) is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting as well as the history of collecting. She was formerly Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, New York (2007–2020).
Esmée Quodbach (MA, Utrecht University) is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting as well as the history of collecting. She was formerly Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, New York (2007–2020).
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now
Margaret Iacono Wertz and Esmée Quodbach
1 Cleveland House as Art Museum? The Short Life of the ‘Louvre of London’
Anne Nellis Richter
2 Art, Science, and Empire: Contextualizing the Collections at Frederic Church’s Olana
Allegra K. Davis
3 Historical Challenges and Future Perspectives for Collection Museums: The Case of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Ulrike Müller
4 In the Heart of Florentine Collections: Frederick Stibbert and His Museum
Enrico Colle
5 The Divergent Legacies of Parisian Collectors Isaac and Moïse de Camondo
Mia Laufer
6 The Frick Collection: From Private Home to Public Museum
Inge Reist
7 The Ringling’s Ca’ d’Zan: Its Evolution from Winter Residence to Historic House Museum
Marissa S. Hershon
8 An Infinite Reverie: A History of Cairo’s Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum
Nadine Nour el Din
9 Black Voices and Modern Art: The Problem of “Inclusiveness” at The Phillips Collection
Eliza Butler
10 Between Exclusivity and Public Access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania
Aistė Bimbirytė
11 A House Museum as a House Temple: Sequenced Ritual Spaces in Hung’s Art Gallery in Taipei
Chih-En Chen
12 A New Type of House Museum: Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne (2009)
Georgina S. Walker
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now
Margaret Iacono Wertz and Esmée Quodbach
Part 1: Early Beginnings
1 Cleveland House as Art Museum? The Short Life of the ‘Louvre of London’
Anne Nellis Richter
2 Art, Science, and Empire: Contextualizing the Collections at Frederic Church’s Olana
Allegra K. Davis
3 Historical Challenges and Future Perspectives for Collection Museums: The Case of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Ulrike Müller
4 In the Heart of Florentine Collections: Frederick Stibbert and His Museum
Enrico Colle
Part 2: The Gilded Age and Beyond
5 The Divergent Legacies of Parisian Collectors Isaac and Moïse de Camondo
Mia Laufer
6 The Frick Collection: From Private Home to Public Museum
Inge Reist
7 The Ringling’s Ca’ d’Zan: Its Evolution from Winter Residence to Historic House Museum
Marissa S. Hershon
8 An Infinite Reverie: A History of Cairo’s Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum
Nadine Nour el Din
Part 3: Looking Back, Looking Forward
9 Black Voices and Modern Art: The Problem of “Inclusiveness” at The Phillips Collection
Eliza Butler
10 Between Exclusivity and Public Access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania
Aistė Bimbirytė
11 A House Museum as a House Temple: Sequenced Ritual Spaces in Hung’s Art Gallery in Taipei
Chih-En Chen
12 A New Type of House Museum: Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne (2009)
Georgina S. Walker
Index
This book is aimed at museum professionals and art historians and will also appeal to an educated lay audience with an interest in art and history.