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

Boorsch, Suzanne; Cushing, Douglas; Greist, Alexa A.; Hodermarsky, Elisabeth; Marber, Sinclaire; Moore, John; Nolin, Heather

ISBN 10: 0300214391 / ISBN 13: 9780300214390

Published by Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2016

About this Item

First Edition, 1st printing. A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws. "This important volume offers the first comprehensive look at the Arthur Ross Collection - more than 1,200 seventeenth-to-twentieth-century Italian, Spanish, and French prints - and is published to mark the inaugural exhibition of the collection in its new home at the Yale University Art Gallery." PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in black and white photographic reproduction of many of the above-mentioned prints (many full page) with accompanying descriptive captions. 182 pages. FRA2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints
• Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300214391
• ISBN 13: 9780300214390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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.