List of Plates
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Introduction, Frances Fowle and MaryKate Cleary
Part One: The Museum and The Art Dealer
1. Trusted Agents of the Government: British Dealers and the Museum, 1850-1900, Diana Davis (Independent Researcher, UK)
2. Siegfried Bing and the Fin-de-Siècle Market for Japanese Art: Dealers, Collectors & Museums, Tsuksasa Kodera (Osaka University, Japan)
3. Dubious Dealings and issues of connoisseurship: David Croal Thomson and the National Galleries of Scotland, Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh, UK)
4. Etienne Bignou's Matisse and Picasso Exhibitions of the 1930s: The Gallery Show as Prototype for Museum Retrospectives, Christel H. Force (Independent Researcher, USA & France)
5. The Middle Men of Art: Knoedler's and the building of the great American collections, Anne Helmreich (Smithsonian Institution, USA), Sandra van Ginhoven (Getty Research Institute, USA), DiAndra Reyes (Independent Researcher, USA), Kyllie King (Independant Researcher, Italy)
Part Two: Women as Art Agents and Influencers
6. From Executrix to Curator: Rosalind Birnie Philip and the Whistler Estate, Alicia Hughes (British Museum, UK)
Collection, 1903-1958
7. Our Woman in Cairo: Lucy Olcott Perkins as Agent for Cleveland Museum, Imogen Tedbury (National Gallery, UK)
8. A Seed of Desire: Effie Seachrest and Women Collectors in Kansas City, Mackenzie Mallon (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, USA)
9. Impermanent Bliss: Deaccessioning by MoMA and its Consequences, Irene Walsh (Independent Researcher, UK)
Part Three: The Entrepreneurial Collection and the Emergence of the Private Museum
10. Trade, Art Market and Museum: Alfred Chauchard's Legacy to the Louvre, Morgane Weinling (Louvre Museum, France)
11. Marjorie Merriweather Post's Hillwood and the Vision from a Private Collection to Public Museum, Rebecca Tilles (School of Jewellery Arts, France)
12. Filling in the Gaps of his Collection? A Reassessment of Sir William Burrell's Late Collecting Practice, 1944-1957, Isobel MacDonald (University College London, UK)
13. The Private Museum: Evolving Models of Collecting and the Interplay between Collectors and the Art Market, Georgina Walker (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
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