House proud : nineteenth-century watercolor interiors from the Thaw collection
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Type of record: Book
Title: House proud : nineteenth-century watercolor interiors from the Thaw collection
Classmark: Bedford Collection E059
Creator(s): Davidson, Gail S (1941-); McCarron-Cates, Floramae; Gere, Charlotte
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Host institution)
Related people: Thaw, Eugene Victor; Thaw, Clare; Thaw, Clare; Thaw, Eugene Victor
Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Publication city: New York, NY
Date(s): [2008]
Language: English
Size and medium: 160 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731252
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019930776705181
Description
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held Aug. 12, 2008-Jan. 25, 2009, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
"Some research in this catalogue was originally published in Charlotte Gere, An album of nineteenth-century interiors : watercolors from two private collections (New York : The Frick Collection, 1992)"--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-155) and index.
Foreword / Paul Warwick Thompson -- The Inside Story: Prints and Drawings of Interiors in Cooper-Hewitt's Collection / Gail S. Davidson -- House Proud: From Amateur to Professional and from Grand to Comfortable / Charlotte Gere and Floramae McCarron-Cates.
"In the nineteenth century, it became highly fashionable for aristocratic and upper-class homeowners in Europe to commission watercolor paintings of their domestic interiors and to collect them in albums to be passed on to children, given as gifts to visiting royalty, and displayed in drawing rooms. House Proud commemorates the recent gift of a group of eighty-five nineteenth-century watercolor interior drawings--the largest collection of its kind in America--to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of the home."--Jacket
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E059: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FA/13.
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