Modernism and Memory: Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting

Ian Collins

ISBN 10: 0300214871 / ISBN 13: 9780300214871

Published by Yale University Press, 2016

About this Item

Editor(s): Collins, Ian; Hughes, Eleanor. Num Pages: 208 pages, 224 color illus. BIC Classification: ACX; ACXJ; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 222. . . 2016. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780300214871

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modernism and Memory: Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300214871
• ISBN 13: 9780300214871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker’s collection of 20th-century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester in1914 and emigrated to the United States during the Blitz, was an avid and daring collector of paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Keen to support artists whose reputations were still emerging, and loyal to no single school or style, she developed a unique and impressively diverse collection. While Pritzker most actively purchased pieces in the 1950s and 1960s, her collection offers a fascinating window onto postwar artistic production. Beautifully illustrated, this catalogue features a number of unpublished works and archival materials. Among the artists discussed are key figures, including L. S. Lowry, Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro, and Henry Moore, as well as lesser-known artists. The texts elucidate the factors that made Pritzker’s method of collecting so singular―namely her relationship to an evolving transatlantic artistic community and the deeply personal nature of the works she procured.

Published by the Yale Center for British Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

 

Exhibition Schedule:

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
(05/11/2016-08/21/2016)

About the Author

Ian Collins is a curator and independent art writer. Eleanor Hughes is deputy director for Art & Program at the Walters Art Museum and former associate director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Yale Center for British Art.