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Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting

Edited by Ian Collins and Eleanor Hughes; Preface by Margo Howard; Introduction by Ian Collins; Contributions by Frances Spalding, Samuel Shaw, and Eric M. Stryker

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This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker’s collection of 20th-century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester in1914 and emigrated to the United States during the Blitz, was an avid and daring collector of paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Keen to support artists whose reputations were still emerging, and loyal to no single school or style, she developed a unique and impressively diverse collection. While Pritzker most actively purchased pieces in the 1950s and 1960s, her collection offers a fascinating window onto postwar artistic production. Beautifully illustrated, this catalogue features a number of unpublished works and archival materials. Among the artists discussed are key figures, including L. S. Lowry, Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro, and Henry Moore, as well as lesser-known artists. The texts elucidate the factors that made Pritzker’s method of collecting so singular—namely her relationship to an evolving transatlantic artistic community and the deeply personal nature of the works she procured.


Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
(05/11/2016-08/21/2016)

Ian Collins is a curator and independent art writer. Eleanor Hughes is deputy director for Art & Program at the Walters Art Museum and former associate director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Yale Center for British Art.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
(05/11/2016-08/21/2016)

ISBN: 9780300214871
Publication Date: April 26, 2016
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art
224 pages, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2
224 color illus.
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Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

Edited by Eleanor Hughes and Angus Trumble

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Spreading Canvas

Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Edited by Eleanor Hughes; With contributions by Eleanor Hug

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Majolica Mania

Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915

Edited by Susan Weber, with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs

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