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Gifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Max Hollein (2020)

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In honor of the institution’s 150th year, this publication celebrates the 203 collectors who committed more than 2,500 works of art to The Met for the sesquicentennial. These meaningful additions change the ways in which we think about the Museum’s holdings and deepen the stories The Met can tell about all the works in the collection.

Highlights featured in this volume include an imposing stone head from an Egyptian sarcophagus; an opulent horse armor commissioned by King Philip IV of Spain; a Tibetan war mask; an early American daguerreotype; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s enigmatic watercolor; an early twentieth-century Japanese bamboo shrine cabinet; poignant photographs made by Robert Frank for his iconic series The Americans; the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera’s 1949 tondo Iberic; Steve Miller’s 1961 Gibson guitar; important works by Georg Baselitz; art from the Iranian Saqqakhana school; the vibrant bark painting of Aboriginal Australian artist Nonggirrnga Marawili; and recent creations by artists such as Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Robert Gober, and Wangechi Mutu.

Table of contents

Introduction

Gifts of Art

List of Gifts in Celebration of the 150th Anniversary

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Photography Credits

About the authors

Max Hollein is Marina Kellen French Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Authors: Max Hollein

Artists: Arbus, Diane (American, 1923–1971) | Balenciaga, Cristobal (Spanish, 1895–1972) | Burne-Jones, Sir Edward (British, 1833–1898) | Cambiaso, Luca (Italian, 1527–1585) | Carracci, Ludovico (Italian, Bolognese, 1555–1619) | Church, Frederic Edwin (American, 1826–1900) | Colt, Samuel (1814–1862) | Dahl, Johan Christian (Norwegian, 1788–1857) | Degas, Edgar (French, 1834–1917) | Delacroix, Eugène (French, 1798–1863) | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | Fenton, Roger (British, 1819–1869) | Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (French, 1732–1806) | Frank, Robert (American, born Switzerland, 1924 – present) | Giambologna (Giovanni Bologna) (Italian, Florentine, ca. 1529–1608) | Gifford, Sanford Robinson (American, 1823–1880) | Gober, Robert (American, born 1954) | Gris, Juan (Spanish, 1887–1927) | Gros, Antoine-Jean (French, 1771–1835) | Hollar, Wenceslaus (British, 1607–1677) | Kirkeby, Per (Danish, born 1938) | Lorrain, Claude (French, 1604–1682) | Lyon & Healy (American; active Chicago, late 19th century) | Martin, Christian Frederick (American, born Germany, 1796–1873) | Nagasawa Rosetsu (Japanese, 1754–1799) | Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764) | Olowe of Ise (Yoruba [Nigerian], ca. 1873–1938) | Picasso, Pablo (Spanish, 1881–1973) | Remington, Frederic (American, 1861–1909) | Rousseau, Théodore (French, 1812–1867) | Strand, Paul (American, 1890–1976) | Stuart, Gilbert (American, 1755–1828) | Vlaminck, Maurice de (French, 1876–1958) | Ward, John Quincy Adams (American, 1830–1910) | Wool, Christopher

Keywords: Abstract Expressionism | Albumen silver print | American art | American Decorative Arts | Andes | Architecture | Arms and armor | Art Deco | Arts and Crafts movement | Avant-garde | Aztec | Baroque | Biblical narrative scenes | Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara | Boston | Bronze | Buddhism | Byzantium | Calligraphy | Central Africa | Central Europe | Chalk | Charcoal | Child portraiture | China | Chinese poetry | Christianity | Clothing | Collage | Colonial Latin America | Contemporary art | Copper | Cubism | Daguerreotype | Dress | Edo period | Eighteenth century | Embroidery | Engraving | Etching | European decorative arts | Fauvism | Fifteenth-century | Floral motifs | Fourteenth-century | France | Funerary art | Furniture | Gelatin silver print | Geometric | Geometric abstraction | Germany | Glass | Gold | Great Britain | Heian period | Hellenistic | Hieroglyphs | Himalayan Mountains | Hinduism | Horse armor | Hudson River School | India | Ink | Iran | Islamic art | Italy | Japan | Jewelry | Kuba | Landscape drawings | Landscape painting | Marble | Maya | Medieval art | Metal | Mexico | Ming Dynasty | Modern art | Momoyama period | Mountains | Mughal | Musical instruments | Mythology | Native American | Netherlands | New Kingdom | Nigeria | Ninteenth-century | North Africa | Northern Italy | Nude | Oil paints | Olmec | Painting | Paper | Peru | Philadelphia | Photography | Photojournalism | Pictorialism | Platinum prints | Polynesia | Portrait painting | Printmaking | Ptolemaic period | Qing Dynasty | Realism | Religious art | Renaissance | Rococo | Roman art | Romanticism | Rome | Scandinavia | Scroll paintings | Sculpture | Self-portraits | Seventeenth-century | Silk | Silkscreen | Silver | Silver gilt | Sixteenth-century | South America | Spain | Steel | Stone | Surrealism | Sword blades | Tenth-century | Textile design | Thirteenth-century | Tibet | Trompe l'oeil | Twelfth-century | Twentieth-century | United States | Venice | Vessels | Watercolor | West Africa | Wood | Woodcut print | Wool | Writing

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