Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America

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About the Directory

The Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America was developed by the Frick's Center for the History of Collecting to guide art researchers to primary source material about American collectors and those who assisted in forming their collections. The database is updated and edited regularly with information from institutions and individuals. For more information about the Directory or to contribute information, please contact The Frick Collection/Frick Art Research Library Archives at archives@frick.org or the Digital Art History Lab at dahlprograms@frick.org.

We gratefully acknowledge Melvin R. Seiden, the Billy Rose Foundation, I. Townsend Burden, Peter Blanchard, DeCourcy E. McIntosh, Juan Sabater, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and an anonymous donor for their generous support of this project.

We would also like to acknowledge the following contributors: Bertha Adams, Dahlia Azran, Caroline Chang, Lauren Durling, Julia Fields, L. Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Gimblett, Jeffrey Greggs, Abbey Nova, Jacqueline Snyder, Nava Streiter, and Sarah Van Anden.



Interactive Timeline — Art Collecting in America by Decade (1770-2010)

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P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Codman, Richard, 1762-1806
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Gilmor, Robert, 1774-1848
Colnaghi, Dominic Paul, 1790-1879
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Bryan, Thomas Jefferson, 1800?-1870
Galerie Durand-Ruel
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Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904
Altman, Benjamin, 1840-1913
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
Shinn, Earl, 1838-1886
Bode, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929
Duveen Brothers
Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 1853-1908
Havemeyer, Henry Osborne, 1847-1907
American Art Association
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
Douglas, R. Langton (Robert Langton), 1864-1951
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919
Guggenheim, Solomon R. (Solomon Robert), 1861-1949
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913
Palmer, Bertha Honore, 1849-1918
Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960.
Bliss, Lizzie P. (Lizzie Plummer), 1864-1931
Dreier, Katherine Sophie 1877-1952
Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954
Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951
Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966.
Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-
Hammer, Armand, 1898-1990
Hogg, Ima
Payson, Joan Whitney, 1903-1975
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
Linsky, Jack
Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972
Baker, Richard Brown
Menil, Dominique de
Morse, Albert Reynolds, 1914-2000
Scull, Robert, 1917-1986.
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Leo Castelli Gallery
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