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

BOORSCH; Suzanne

ISBN 10: 0300214391 / ISBN 13: 9780300214390

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015

About this Item

Illustrated in color. 196 pages. 4to, grey cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2015). As new in shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 322246

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300214391
• ISBN 13: 9780300214390
• Binding: hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • 20TH CENTURY
  • ART
  • 18TH CENTURY
  • 19TH CENTURY
  • 17TH CENTURY

About this title

Synopsis

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 Eugène Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, 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.

Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

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.