Scarce early catalogue documenting the formative years of the New York University Art Collection, published by the New York University Art Collection Committee in 1963, more than a decade before the opening of the Grey Art Gallery. Small 8vo (5.5” x 7”), printed wrappers, 20 pages. Compiled by Janet Keyishian with an introduction by Howard Conant, the catalogue records approximately 300 paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings acquired by the university and reflects the emergence of the American university art collection as an important instrument of teaching and scholarship during the postwar period.
The distinguished Art Collection Committee included Howard Conant, Colin Eisler, H. W. Janson, Sheldon Keck, Leo Manso, Hale Woodruff, and curator Ruth Gurin—a remarkable assemblage of art historians, artists, and conservators whose collective influence helped shape the study and presentation of art in the United States. The collection itself includes works by Josef Albers, Jean Arp, Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Sonia Delaunay, Lyonel Feininger, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Barbara Hepworth, Hans Hofmann, Alex Katz, Paul Klee, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Yayoi Kusama, Jacques Lipchitz, Reginald Marsh, Knox Martin, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Ben Nicholson, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Kurt Schwitters, Esphyr Slobodkina, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Grant Wood, and numerous other significant twentieth-century artists.
From the working library of architectural historian and long-time NYU Professor Carol Herselle Krinsky, though unmarked. An elusive institutional publication seldom encountered in commerce and apparently scarce in library holdings. Near fine.
Scarce early catalogue documenting the formative years of the New York University Art Collection, published by the New York University Art Collection Committee in 1963, more than a decade before the opening of the Grey Art Gallery. Small 8vo (5.5” x 7”), printed wrappers, 20 pages. Compiled by Janet Keyishian with an introduction by Howard Conant, the catalogue records approximately 300 paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings acquired by the university and reflects the emergence of the American university art collection as an important instrument of teaching and scholarship during the postwar period.
The distinguished Art Collection Committee included Howard Conant, Colin Eisler, H. W. Janson, Sheldon Keck, Leo Manso, Hale Woodruff, and curator Ruth Gurin—a remarkable assemblage of art historians, artists, and conservators whose collective influence helped shape the study and presentation of art in the United States. The collection itself includes works by Josef Albers, Jean Arp, Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Sonia Delaunay, Lyonel Feininger, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Barbara Hepworth, Hans Hofmann, Alex Katz, Paul Klee, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Yayoi Kusama, Jacques Lipchitz, Reginald Marsh, Knox Martin, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Ben Nicholson, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Kurt Schwitters, Esphyr Slobodkina, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Grant Wood, and numerous other significant twentieth-century artists.
From the working library of architectural historian and long-time NYU Professor Carol Herselle Krinsky, though unmarked. An elusive institutional publication seldom encountered in commerce and apparently scarce in library holdings. Near fine.
