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American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
68 treasures of Massachusetts museum: Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, Inness, Remington in depth.
The Clark
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., which opened in 1955, was founded by an heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune, Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who began collecting art in Paris in 1911. He had a strong interest in 19th-century painters, particularly the French impressionists and Americans Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, but the museum also has old-master paintings, prints, drawings, decorative arts, sculpture and illustrated books. Eighty-four of these are reproduced in fine color in this elegant volume. Included are such disparate works as Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels by Piero della Francesca; the once immensely popular Nymphs and Satyr by Bouguereau; paintings by Monet, Renoir and other impressionists; decorative urns, cups and baskets in silver and porcelain; and a sheet of pen-and-ink animal studies by Albrecht Durer. The accompanying essays, by 10 current and former staff members, are insightful and readable. This is a splendid introduction to a small, delightful collection. 88 colour & 5 b/w illustrations
Nineteenth-century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind." This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully documented catalogue of the Institute's collection of European paintings. The quality of this collection reflects the founder's philosophy in its inclusion of masterpieces as diverse as William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr (1873) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's A Box at the Theater (1880); works by academic painters such as Jean-Léon Gérôme; Barbizon painters such as Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet; and the Impressionists Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas. More r...
Book Illustrations from Six Centuries in the Library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Chiefly the books acquired by Sterling Clark beginning in Paris, 1911. Some 40 illustrations, eight in color, embellish this exhibition catalog. Roeper provides expert commentary. A charming piece of book art at a humble price. Available from Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Museum Shop, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
