grey cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 182 pgs w/ 177 color illustrations. black/white pictorial jacket w/ red, white printing. Remains a nice, sharp and bright copy. "This important volume offers the first comprehensive look at the Arthur Ross Collection (more than 1,000 18th- to 20th-century Italian, French, and Spanish prints) and is published to mark the inaugural exhibition of the collection in its new home at the Yale University Art Gallery. Highlights include superb etchings by Canaletto and Tiepolo; the four volumes of Piranesi's "Antiquities of Rome" as well as his famous "Vedute" (Views) and "Carceri" (Prisons); Goya's "Tauromaquia" in its first edition of 1816; an extremely rare etching by Edgar Degas; and numerous other 19th-century French prints, by Eug�ne Delacroix, Honor� Daumier, �douard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul C�zanne, and others. The accompanying essays discuss the life of Arthur Ross, a significant philanthropist who funded several arts institutions; the formation of the collection and the art-historical significance of the works; and several thematic approaches to studying the collection, reinforcing its legacy as an important teaching resource."--WorldCat. VG/VG (light scuffs, scratches to cloth boards. small bump/bruise crease to back upper corner. jacket has light scratches; wear to edges & corners).

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Title

Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints

Publisher

Yale University Art Gallery / Yale University Press, New Haven / London

Publication Date

2015

Language

English

ISBN 10

0300214391

ISBN 13

9780300214390

Binding

Hardcover

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This important volume offers the first comprehensive look at the Arthur Ross Collection—more than 1,200 17th- to 20th-century Italian, French, and Spanish prints—and is published to mark the inaugural exhibition of the collection in its new home at the Yale University Art Gallery. Highlights include superb etchings by Canaletto and Tiepolo; the four volumes of Piranesi’s Antiquities of Rome, as well as his famous Vedute (Views) and Carceri (Prisons); Goya’s Tauromaquia in its first edition of 1816; an extremely rare etching by Edgar Degas; and numerous other 19th-century French prints, by Eug�ne Delacroix, Honor� Daumier, �douard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul C�zanne, and others. The accompanying essays discuss the life of Arthur Ross, a significant philanthropist who funded several arts institutions; the formation of the collection and the art-historical significance of the works; and several thematic approaches to studying the collection, reinforcing its legacy as an important teaching resource.

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Exhibition Schedule:

Yale University Art Gallery
(12/18/15–04/24/16)

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
(01/29/17–05/08/17)

Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse University
(08/17/17–11/19/17)

About the Author

Suzanne Boorsch is Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery.

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