A modern influence
Subtitle: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore
By: edited by Katherine Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi ; featuring artwork and commentary by Theresa Chromati
Contributors: Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954, artist; Rothkopf, Katherine, editor; Cozzi, Leslie, editor; Shell, Oliver, writer of supplementary textual content; Primeau, Thomas, writer of supplementary textual content; Fisher, Jay McKean, 1949- writer of supplementary textual content; Ross, Kristin, writer of supplementary textual content; Chromati, Theresa, 1992- writer of supplementary textual content
Publisher: The Baltimore Museum of Art
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Baltimore, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780578888187
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions; Friends and associates; Art collections; Art; Private collections; Collectors and collecting; French Art; Friendship in art; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Women art collectors; Baltimore Museum of Art
Other titles: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore
Description: "This exhibition explores the 43-year friendship between artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Baltimore collector Etta Cone (1870-1949). More than 160 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and illustrated books provide new insights into the formation of the renowned Cone Collection, one of the greatest collections of modern art in the United States. Etta, with her older sister Claribel (1864-1929), acquired more than 700 works by Matisse between 1906 and 1949 and bequeathed the majority of them to the BMA as part of a gift of 3,000 objects. Etta's dedication and curiosity ultimately lent the Cone collection its characteristic depth and breadth. After accepting Etta's invitation to visit her in Baltimore in 1930, Matisse realized he could have a major U.S. presence, and began creating and offering Etta specific works of art with the Cone collection in mind." Among these works are masterpieces such as The Yellow Dress (1929-31) and Large Reclining Nude (1935), rarely shown drawings, and the preliminary studies for his first illustrated book, Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé (1932). The works in the exhibition are generally arranged by acquisition date, demonstrating Cone's increasingly discerning eye for Matisse's work throughout their long partnership. A fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition contains new scholarship on the formal, technical, and social aspects of the decades-long working partnership between artist and patron.
Notes: "This catalogue is published by The Baltimore Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition 'A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore', presented October 3, 2021-January 2, 2022"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword; title: Chère Mademoiselle Cone, Cher Monsieur Matisse : the enduring friendship between Henri Matisse and Etta Cone / Katherine Rothkopf; title: Etta's beard : playing hide-and-seek with Henri Matisse / Leslie Cozzi; title: Sculptural patronage in two modes : Etta Cone and the bronzes of Henri Matisse / Oliver Shell; title: Matisse's drawings for 'The yellow dress' / Thomas Primeau; title: Mallarmé's 'Poems' / Jay McKean Fisher; title: Elsewhere as pastiche / Kristin Ross; title: Plates / with remarks by Theresa Chromati; title: Works in the exhibition.