Power underestimated
Subtitle: American women art collectors
By: edited by Inge Reist and Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Contributors: Center for the History of Collecting in America; Università degli studi di Venezia
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Ricerche; Ricerche (Marsilio editori)
Publisher: Marsilio
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Venezia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9788831799492
Subjects: Women art collectors; Congresses; History
Other titles: American women art collectors
Notes: Proceedings of a symposium jointly organized by the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection and the Doctoral Studies School in Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, held at University of Venice, Ca' Foscari in April 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Anne L. Poulet; title: Introduction  -- Inge Reist, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi; title: Henry James : fictional and real-life art collectors  -- Rosella Mamoli Zorzi; title: Labor pains : women, collecting, and the birth of the American art world, ca. 1876  -- Katherine Manthorne; title: Woman collector vs. woman appreciator : art consumption in Henry James's "The Spoils of Poynton"  -- Simone Francescato -- The; title: collecting and patronage of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe in gilded-age New York and Newport  -- Margaret R. Laster -- The; title: mysterious Arabella D. Huntington and her passion for collecting  -- Shelley M. Bennett; title: Irene Leache, Annie Wood, Jean Chrysler, and the founding of the Chrysler Museum  -- William J. Hennessey; title: Collectors in Edith Wharton's fiction  -- Elisabetta Mezzani; title: Helen Clay Frick : charting her own course  -- Inge Reist; title: Lillie Bliss (1864-1931) : an independent collector  -- Tamara L. Follini; title: Doorways to paradise : Islamic art for Doris Duke's Honolulu home -- Sharon Littlefield.