SHC Series on Independent Museums 2020

SocHistColl’s Autumn series on Independent museums, 2020 Organising these sessions allowed me to embark on a wonderful and poignant journey of discovery, and I tried to vary their formats in order to enable different perspectives to emerge. First a discussion gathering David Green, director of the Florence Nightingale museum, Helen Bonser-Wilton, CEO of the MaryRose Trust, Emma … Continue reading SHC Series on Independent Museums 2020

Celebrating Poetry Month

TO CELEBRATE POETRY MONTH While the term "collection" is most often applied to poetry with the phrase "poetry collection," Poetry Month has prompted thoughts on the relationship between poets, poetry, and art collecting. Here is one connecton between collecting and poetry. Can you think of others? Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), best known for his volume Italy, A Poem, was … Continue reading Celebrating Poetry Month

SHC Online Symposium: The Evolving House Museum Programme (18-19 June, 2021)

Society for the History of Collecting The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now Online Symposium, June 18–19, 2021 Organized and chaired by Margaret Iacono, Independent Scholar, Norwalk, Connecticut, and Esmée Quodbach,Independent Scholar, Princeton, New Jersey FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021, 11 A.M.–2 P.M. (EDT) / 4 P.M.–7 P.M. (BST) * All … Continue reading SHC Online Symposium: The Evolving House Museum Programme (18-19 June, 2021)

 Collecting and Display: ‘The Galerie Paul Rosenberg: Transnational Networks and the Market for French Contemporary Art, 1918–1945 (17 May 2021, 6pm)

MaryKate Cleary will speak on  ‘The Galerie Paul Rosenberg: Transnational Networks and the Market for French Contemporary Art, 1918–1945’ Monday, 17th May at 6 p.m. By the start of World War I, art dealer, collector and publisher Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959) had developed a successful business and legendary stock of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French … Continue reading  Collecting and Display: ‘The Galerie Paul Rosenberg: Transnational Networks and the Market for French Contemporary Art, 1918–1945 (17 May 2021, 6pm)