Holland’s Golden Age in America

Esmée Quodbach is Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library in New York.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordEsmée QuodbachIntroduction: A Taste for Dutch ArtPeter C. SuttonPart IThe Early Years: The Formation of America’s Taste for Dutch Art1“Pictures chiefly painted in oils, on boards”: Dutch Paintings in Colonial New YorkLouisa Wood Ruby2Robert Gilmor, Jr.’s “Real” Dutch PaintingsLance Humphries3Collecting Old Dutch Masters: Originals, Interpretations, Copies, and ReproductionsAnnette Stott4Wilhelm von Bode and Collecting in AmericaCatherine B. ScallenPart IIThe Gilded Age: Great Collections and Collectors of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art5Golden Age Paintings in the Gilded Age: New York Collectors and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870–1920Walter Liedtke6“They leave us as they find us, they never elevate”: John G. Johnson and the Dutch MastersLloyd DeWitt7Collecting Vermeer, 1887–1919Esmée Quodbach8Collecting Dutch Paintings in BostonRonni Baer9The Dutch Painting Collection at the National Gallery of ArtArthur K. Wheelock, Jr.Part IIIThe Twentieth Century: The Dissemination of Dutch Art Across America and the Dutch Reaction10The Passionate Eye of W. R. Valentiner: Shaping the Canon of Dutch Painting in AmericaDennis P. Weller11Unexpected Rivals for the Dutch: Competing with the Americans for Holland’s National Heritage in Great Britain and ElsewherePeter Hecht12Golden Opportunities: Collecting Rembrandt in Southern CaliforniaAnne T. Woollett13Has the Great Age of Collecting Dutch Old Master Paintings Come to an End?Quentin BuvelotReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

“This book provides answers for anyone who has ever wondered why there are so many great Dutch paintings in U.S. collections. Essays by leading curators and scholars draw on the history of art, as well as an understanding of cultural, economic, and political conditions, to illuminate the American taste for seventeenth-century Dutch painting.”—Emilie Gordenker, Director, Mauritshuis, The Hague