The Armand Hammer Collection: Four Centuries of Masterpieces

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978. Hard cover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. A hardcover edition. This is an unsigned, unnumbered commemorative edition; Limited to 4000 copies. his impressive collection of European and American paintings and drawings reflects the interests and passion of the museum's founder, Armand Hammer. The Armand Hammer Collection provides an impressive overview of the major movements of nineteenth-century French art, with significant examples of realism, orientalism, the Barbizon school, impressionism, postimpressionism, pointillism, and symbolism by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Gustave Moreau, Camille Pissarro, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Portraiture and landscape both figure prominently in the collection, and several artists are represented by more than one work. Moreaus jewel-like King David (1878) and evocative Salom Dancing before Herod (1876) are two of the artists most renowned works, while Vincent van Gogh is represented by three important paintings, including the remarkable Hospital at Saint-Rmy (1889). European old master paintings include two major works by Rembrandt van Rijn from both the earlier and later periods of the artists career, Portrait of a Man Holding a Black Hat (ca. 1637) and Juno, as well as paintings by Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Honor Fragonard, and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Among the American artists in the collection are George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Gilbert Stuart. Sargents dazzling, over-life-size portrait Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881) is one of the most prominent works in the collection.