A Sampling of Significant Collections of Historic Representational American Art

derived from articles and essays published in Resource Library through 3/12/12

This catalogue includes collections assembled by individuals, commercial enterprises and other entities. It.excludes museums' general collections.

Eugene B. Adkins Collection 

Amarillo High School Art Collection

Amistad Collection

Anderson Collection

Andreas, Hill, & Loo Collections

Philip F. Anschutz Collection of Western Art

Archdiocese of Santa Fe Art Collection

The Charles M. Bair Family Collection

Bank of America Collection

The Barrett Collection of Early Texas Art

John and Dolores Beck Collection

Becker Collection

John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation

Bayou Bend Collection

Steven Block Collection

Charles Bregler Collection

Charles and Fleur Bresler Collection

Faith and Stephen Brown Collection

William P. Brumfield Collection

Nancy & Alan Cameros Collection

Robert and Helen Cargo Collection

Chihuly Collection of Native American Trade Blankets

Thomas Clark Collection

Wes and Missy Cochran Collection

Philip Gillette Cole Collection

Commerce Bank Collection

Napi Van Dereck Collection

David C. Driskell Collection

Ebsworth Collection

John P. Eckblad Collection

A.G. Edwards/Wachovia Securities Collection

Emmons Collection

Walter O. Evans Collection

Clark Field Collection

John and Teenuh Foster

Foxley Collection

Friends of Photography Collection

Henry Melville Fuller Collection

Gladstone Collection

Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb Collection

Grey Collection

Grice Collection of Native American Art

Gross Family Collection

Edward J. Guarino Collection

Robert L. and Ellen E. Haan Collection

Hallmark Collection

Hartford Steam Boiler Collection

Hays Collection

Hechinger Collection

Manfred Heiting Collection

Grant Hill Collection

John A. and Margaret Hill Collection

Kit Hinrichs Collection

Historic Cincinnati Collection

Fred T. and Novadean Hogan Collection

Eva Underhill Holbrook Collection

John and Susan Horseman Collection

Horst Collection

Huber Family Collection

Huffman Collection

Anna Hyatt Huntington Collection

Sir Elton John Collection

Kamm Collection

Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection

Kelly Collection

Francis King Collection

Mark Lansburgh Collection

Jay T. Last Collection

Lilly Endowment Collection

Gill and Tommy LiPuma Collection

Janis and Dennis Lyon Collection

Manoogian Collection

Henry and Sharon Martin Collection

Jane and Arthur Mason Collection

McGlothlin Collection

Josephine Young McKenna Collection

Dr. Timothy McLaughlin Collection

Meredith Collection

Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection

Nashville Collections

Richard E. and Dorothy Rawlings Nelson Collection of American Indian Art

Nevada Bell Collection

Newport Collection

Julia J. Norrell Collection

Ralph E. Olson Collection

William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection

Arthur J. Phelan Collection

Pratt Collection

Stephen W. and Mary M. Pruitt Collection

C. William and Eleanor Reiquam Collection

Frederic G. and Ginger K. Renner

Sid Richardson Collection

Judy Roche Collection

Royal & SunAlliance Collection

Rubin Collection

James Rutkowski Collection

Prentice and Paul Sack Collection

Norman L. Sandfield Collection

Steve Schmidt Collection

Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection

Schoen Collection

Seavest Collection

Sellars Collection

Shumate Collection

Gerald and Hope Solomons Collection

Barbara Belgrade Spargo Collection

Spiro Family Collection

Jean and Robert Steele Collection

Sterling Vineyards Print Portfolio

Diane and Sam Stewart Art Collection

James A. Suydam Collection

Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection

Texas Collections

Seymour R. Thaler and Mildred Thaler Cohen Collection

Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art

Paul LeBaron Thiebaud Collection

Ted Turner Collection

Two Red Roses Foundation Collection

Richard Weisman Collection

Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White Southwestern Art Collection

James F. White Collection

Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art

Dr. Francis R. Whitehouse Collection

Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb Collection

Reba and Dave Williams Collection

Wendy Willrich Collection

John Wilmerding Collection

Wishard Art Collection

Wunsch Collection

Notes:

See Shaping an Art Collection and Private Collections: Patterns and Aesthetics; essay by Franklin Hill Perrell (8/11/05)

For TFAO's definition of representational art please see: American representational art.

The National Gallery of Art's audio podcasts page contains podcasts concerning collecting American art with titles including:

• "Image: The Vogel Collection Story: Postcards from Artists," with Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, and Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, collectors, 58 minutes, October 10, 2010
• "The Art of Collecting, with Texas-based collectors Harmon and Harriet Kelley and Deborah Willis, professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 67 minutes, February 22, 2009
• "Collecting as a Way of Life" with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and Juliet Bethea, collector, Washington, DC, 71 minutes, February 15, 2009
• "Conversations with Collectors: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel," with Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, collectors, in conversation with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, 54 minutes, November 16, 2008
• The Collecting of African American Art lecture series including "A Historical Overview," with Jacqueline Francis, independent scholar, 59 minutes, February 8, 2009; "A Peculiar Destiny: The Mission of the Paul R. Jones Collection," with Amalia K. Amaki, professor of art history, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and Paul R. Jones, collector, 84 minutes, February 24, 2008, "Reflections on Collecting," with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, director of Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and Dr. Walter O. Evans, collector, 83 minutes, February 17, 2008
• "American Modernism: The Shein Collection," with Nancy Anderson, curator, American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Charles Brock, associate curator, American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 minutes, n.d.
• "The Vogel Collection Story: Part 1, Meeting and Collecting," with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, 11 minutes, n.d.
• "The Vogel Collection Story: Part 2, Working with the National Gallery of Art," with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, 8 minutes, n.d.
• "The Vogel Collection Story: Part 3, The Fifty Works for Fifty States Project: Two Years Later," with Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, 13 minutes, n.d.
• "Snapshot Collecting," with Robert E. Jackson, collector, and Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art, 10 minutes, n.d.

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