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Charles Ryskamp: A Life in Arts and Letters

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Partner:: Frick Collection
Location:: The Frick Collection
New York, NY
Event Date:: 02.15.12
Speaker:: Matthew Hargraves
Tags:: frick collection; painting; artist; photography; museum

Summary: Charles Ryskamp (1928–2010) served as the Director of The Frick Collection from 1987 to 1997. Under his leadership the Frick underwent a profound evolution and embarked on a new era of growth and innovation within the arts. In conjunction with the exhibition A Passion for Drawings, this lecture will explore the fascinating life, letters and collecting interests of this remarkable scholar, teacher, connoisseur, and collector through the magnificent drawings he bequeathed to the Frick."

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Matthew Hargraves

Matthew Hargraves is Associate Curator for Collections Research and Head of Collections Information and Access at the Yale Center for British Art, where he has worked since 2005. A specialist in British art of the eighteenth century, he received his Ph.D. from The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2003 and has since published broadly on the art of the period, including a major study of Britain's first public exhibitions in the eighteenth century, as well as on English watercolors and on drawing practice across Europe. He worked closely with Charles Ryskamp on the exhibition Varieties of Romantic Experience, which was held at the Yale Center in 2010, bringing together two hundred works on paper from the Ryskamp collection and exploring Romanticism as an international phenomenon.

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01 hr 06 min 24 sec

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01.: Introduction

04 min 57 sec

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02.: Charles Ryskamp: A Life in Arts and Letters

03 min 31 sec

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03.: The Beginning of a Collector

04 min 16 sec

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04.: Ryskamp's Personal Collection

04 min 17 sec

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05.: Kenneth Clark

04 min 36 sec

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06.: Retirement and Later Years

02 min 58 sec

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07.: George Stubbs 'Warren Hastings'

03 min 56 sec

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08.: Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

03 min 50 sec

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09.: Henry Fuseli 'A Fallen Horseman Attacked by a Monstrous Serpent'

02 min 06 sec

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10.: Cambridge

03 min 05 sec

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11.: Sir Geoffrey Keynes

01 min 44 sec

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12.: William Blake

02 min 15 sec

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13.: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

03 min 13 sec

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14.: Pierre Joseph Redoute 'Plum Branches Intertwined'

02 min 23 sec

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15.: Admiring Small Works of Art / Paul Mellon's Study

03 min 51 sec

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16.: Edgar Degas 'Study of a Male Nude'

01 min 40 sec

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17.: Sir David Wilkie 'Burial of the Scottish Regalia'

06 min 45 sec

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18.: Theodore Rousseau 'A Pond on the Edge of a Wood'

03 min 02 sec

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19.: Nicholas Benson 'Headstone for Charles Ryskamp'

02 min 25 sec

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20.: Q1: Ryskamp's Parents?

01 min 34 sec

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Charles Ryskamp: The Legacy of a Collector

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Matthew Hargraves, Associate Curator at the Yale Center for British Art, explores Charles Ryskamp's personal art collection philosophy and how it informed his curation of The Frick Collection.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

art collection: Works of art accumulated by an individual or institution. Such collections were made in the earliest civilizations; precious objects were stored in temples, tombs, sanctuaries, and palaces. A taste for collecting per se developed in Greece (4th–1st century BC). The great art collections of the world grew out of private collections formed by royalty, aristocracy, and the wealthy. By the 18th century, collectors were donating their holdings to the public and constructing buildings to house them (e.g., the Louvre Museum, Uffizi Gallery). Wealthy industrialists in the U.S. played a prominent role in the 19th–20th century, and an unprecedented flow of masterpieces from Europe soon filled U.S. museums.; art collection on britannica.com