Albany Institute of History and Art

200 Years of Collecting

Edited by Tammis K. Groft & Mary Alice Mackay

Subjects: New York/regional, Archives And Collections, Art, Arts And Crafts
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781555951016, 332 pages, January 1998

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Table of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments from the Board of Trustees
Acknowledgments from the Chief Curator
History of the AIHA Collections
Bibliography
CATALOGUE

Notes to the Catalogue

Authors

Paintings and Drawings

Miniatures

Sculpture

Prints

Silver and Pewter

Furniture

Stoves

Ceramics and Glass

Textiles

Costumes

Notes
Index

Beautifully illustrated introduction and overview to the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art

Description

Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's Upper Hudson Valley. These include Hudson River School landscape paintings, portraits by Ezra Ames and Charles Loring Elliott, sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, landscape and interior paintings by Walter Launt Palmer, and Albany –made silver and other crafts.

This comprehensive overview of the Albany Institute of History and Art's American art and decorative-arts collections, presents color plates and essays on about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000). Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each object in this volume was chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley through four centuries.