Author: Keyes, George S ; Tom Rassieur; Dennis P Weller; Jon L Seydl; North Carolina Museum of Art.; et al.
Title: Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship
Description: Cleveland; Minneapolis; Raleigh; New York, Cleveland Museum of Art ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; NCMA; Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2011. Hardcover. Dark chocolate cloth boards, brown-tone pictorial dust jacket. 224 pp. Profuse color plates and figures. The singular 17th-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn contributed some of the most important and beguiling paintings to the history of Western art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty of the finest paintings by the Dutch master and his followers from private and public collections across America, to tell the intriguing and often controversial story of the collecting and connoisseurship of Rembrandt paintings in America. Contents as follows: Rembrandt paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Rembrandt in the seventeenth century /; Tom Rassieur --; Rembrandt paintings and America /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's Leiden years : mastering his craft and defining his genius /; Tom Rassieur --; The elusive nature of portraiture : Rembrandt as a portraitist in Amsterdam /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's history paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Catalogue of the exhibition --; Appendix :; Rembrandt painting exhibitions in North America : 1892-2011. VG+/VG .

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