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The Horticultural Roots of Joseph Breck

October 9, 2014

By Christina Alphonso

Christina Alphonso, administrator at The Cloisters, discusses the acute horticultural knowledge of Joseph Breck and his family, and its influence on Breck's designs for The Cloisters museum and gardens.

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Joseph W. Drexel and the Beginnings of the Met's Musical Instrument Collection

January 30, 2014

By Rebecca Lindsey

In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, volunteer Rebecca Lindsey discusses Joseph Drexel's invaluable role in assembling the Museum's early collection of instruments from across the globe.

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The Death of Joseph Breck and the Formation of The Cloisters Library

September 11, 2014

By Michael Carter

Michael Carter, librarian at The Cloisters, discusses the role played by its first director, Joseph Breck, in the formation of its library.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

October 1, 2004

By Elizabeth E. Barker

Though profoundly influenced by landscapists and history painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Turner was an innovator who has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction.

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"A Study for Abimelech Discovering Isaac and Rebecca by Étienne Parrocel"

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Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris

Between 1953 and 1966, New York assemblage artist Joseph Cornell created more than twenty works in homage to Juan Gris, specifically inspired by the Cubist’s collage masterpiece, The Man at the Café (1914). Cornell’s Gris boxes have as their centerpiece the image of a bird, the great white-crested cockatoo, whose delightful and erudite connections to the Cubist’s oeuvre and to Cornell’s own hobbies, love of music, and distinctive approach to modern art are comprehensively documented here for the first time.

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