Inge Reist

Este libro es un homenaje a los soberbios ejemplos de la obra del Greco conservados en Estados Unidos. El estilo tan personal del artista tenía un aire de modernidad que atraía a los coleccionistas de aquel pais, gracias a lo cual los museos americanos poseen muchos de los mejores Grecos que hay fuera de España. Once especialistas abordan el estudio de coleccionistas particulares como Arabella Huntington, Louisine Havemeyer, Henry Clay Frick, Peter Widener y Duncan Phillips, pero analizan tambien el impacto de las exposiciones en las que pudieron verse obras del cretense y el papel que desempeñaron artistas-asesores como Mary Cassatt y Roger Fry.

Spanish art and culture generated tremendous and sustained excitement in the United States during the period from approximately 1870 to 1930. This book explores why and how some of America's greatest art collectors, including Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry Clay Frick, Charles Deering, Archer Huntington, William Randolph Hearst, and Algur Meadows turned to the art of Spain to expand and enrich their collections. The authors examine in lively detail the formation of the taste for Spanish art that grew from travel and visits to world fairs as well as the roles played by contemporary artists, dealers and advisors who were so influential in importing Spanish works of art to the United States to fuel the growth of so many private and later public American collections.