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Title |
William and Henry Walters : the reticent collectors |
Author |
William R Johnston; Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) |
Publisher |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
Published Place |
Baltimore, Md. |
Published Date |
1999 |
Summary |
"In the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Baltimore businessman William Thompson Walters began to patronize the artists of Maryland. Today, the museum that bears his name - Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery - excels in fields as diverse as Egyptian bronzes, Byzantine silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval carved ivories, early Renaissance paintings, Sevres porcelains, Islamic metalwork, and Chinese ceramics. Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."--Jacket. "With this new book, William Johnston, the Walters's curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, restores William and Henry Walters to their rightful place among America's great art collectors. Drawing upon the knowledge of the early museum staff and gathering valuable information from the few other available sources, Johnston has painstakingly recreated the life and world of the Walterses."--Jacket. "Their personal collection differs from those of other, more familiar collectors, such as J.P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, in that Henry Walters intended from the very first that the collection form a museum to serve the public. When the museum first opened its doors in 1934, Johnston relates, many visitors were surprised by the collection's size and by its comprehensive representation of the history of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early twentieth century."--Jacket. |
Subjects |
Walters, W. T. -- (William Thompson), -- 1820-1894. Walters, Henry, -- 1848-1931. Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography. Walters, Henry. Walters, William. Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography. Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century. Baltimore (Md.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. Art -- Collectionneurs et collections -- E´tats-Unis -- Biographies. Kunstverzamelaars. Walters Art Gallery. Walters Art Museum. Walters, William Thompson, -- (1820-1894) -- Biographies. Walters, Henry, -- (1848-1931) -- Biographies. Art -- Collectionneurs et collections -- E´tats-Unis -- Baltimore (Md.) Baltimore (Md.) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 19e sie`cle. Walters, Henry (Kunstsammler) Baltimore (Md.) -- Walters Art Museum. |
ISBN |
0801860407 |
Collection |
Mrs. Jean and Dr. Robert E. Steele Collection |
Catalog Number |
2014.133 |
Call Number |
N5220.W43 J65 1999 |