Impressionism for England. Samuel Courtauld as patron and collector
Details:
- Author(s) House, John, et al
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 256pp; illus
- Publisher Courtauld Institute Galleries
- Place Published London
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- Name Cultural assets collection & patronage
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Collected essays. Samuel Courtauld, 1876-1947, was managing director from 1917 and chairman from 1921 of the Courtauld textile business. As a businessman he accumulated very considerable wealth. As a collector and a patron, he is best known for his collection of French impressionist art and his establishment in the early 1930s of the Courtauld Institute of Art. The essays are: : John House, 'Impressionism and its contexts'; John House, 'Modern French art for the nation. Samuel Courtauld's Collection and patronage in context'; Andrew Stephenson, ''An anatomy of taste' - Samuel Courtauld and debates about art patronage and modernism in Britain in the interwar years'; John Murdoch, 'The Courtauld family and its money'; John House & William Bradford, 'Catalogue - paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints'; Elizabeth Prettejohn, 'Checklist of Samuel Courtauld's acquisitions of modern French paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn