Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Corcoran College of Art and Design, (Originally the Corcoran School of Art), founded in 1890, is the only professional college of art and design in Washington, DC, located in the Downtown area. The school is a private institution in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is Washington's first and largest private art museum. The gallery opened officially in 1874, originally built to house the collection of its founder, William Wilson Corcoran One of America's oldest art institutions, it predates both New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,...

ISBN: 978-6-1342-4009-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Among other highlights, the Museum's collection of Asian art is considered the finest and most comprehensive in the Southeast, and its Vietnamese ceramics one of the finest in the U.S. The Museum also is home to a remarkable Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the...

ISBN: 978-6-1321-1972-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daniel Pabst (1826-1910) was a virtuoso cabinetmaker of the Victorian Era, and created some of the most extraordinary hand-carved furniture in America. Sometimes working in collaboration with architect Frank Furness (1839-1912), he crafted pieces in the Neo-Grec, Renaissance Revival, Modern Gothic, and Colonial Revival styles. Examples of his work are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in Great Britain.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Pach (1883-1958) was an artist, critic, lecturer, art adviser, and art historian who wrote extensively about modern art and championed the cause of modern art. Through his numerous books, articles, and translations of European art texts Pach brought the emerging modernist viewpoint to the American public.He organized exhibitions of contemporary art for New York City galleries of the period, as well as the landmark exhibition of 1913, The "International Exhibition of Modern Art," known as the Armory Show. With painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he brought together leading contemporary European and American artists. Pach helped John Quinn and Walter Arensberg gather their...

ISBN: 978-6-1322-8264-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dominique Daguerre was a Parisian marchand-mercier who was in partnership from 1772 with Simon-Philippe Poirier, an arbiter of taste and the inventor of furniture mounted with Sevres porcelain plaques; Daguerre assumed Poirier's business at La Couronne d'Or in the Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1777/78. Daguerre commissioned furniture from ebenistes such as Adam Weisweiler, Martin Carlin and Claude-Charles Saunier, and menuisiers like Georges Jacob, for whom he would provide designs, for resale to his clients, in the manner of an interior decorator. A series of watercolours that Daguerre sent to Albert, Duke of Sachsen-Teschen, the brother-in-law of Marie Antoinette, who was refurnishing the castle...

ISBN: 978-6-1336-0846-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xiang Jing (born 1968, Beijing, China) is an artist based in Beijing working in sculpture. She has featured in exhibitions including Photography As Fine Art, at Galerie Skala, Cologne and Your Body – Xiang Jing 2000-2005, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai and has exhibited at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dubin, The National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw and The National Gallery of China, Beijing and her work is part of the Saatchi collection. She is represented by Art Seasons in Singapore and Kwai Fung Hin in Hong Kong. Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the...

ISBN: 978-6-1320-6897-2
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