Art Collecting at the University of Illinois: A History and Catalogue

Within the context of other American institutions of higher learning that began to gather art in the nineteenth century, this dissertation examines the nature, history and significance of art patronage at the University of Illinois: the first section an account dating from the first regent's managing to form a Fine Arts Gallery in 1875 by soliciting funds from local townspeople and travelling to Europe at his own expense to purchase mainly plaster casts and photoengraved reproductions of famous masterpieces (meant to awaken appreciation and nourish "aesthetical tendencies"), to the eventual establishment in 1960-61 of a University art museum that has become, because of persevering administrators, faculty and their supporters, an educational and cultural resource second in Illinois only to the Art Institute of Chicago in the size of its collections and the number of its programs; the second part a fully illustrated catalogue of art objects once or still in, on and around campus structures or at Robert Allerton Park near Monticello, Illinois--done by artists such as Emmanuel Fremiet, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Carl Milles, Daniel Chester French, Lorado Taft, Adolph Weinman, Hermon Atkins MacNeil, Egon P. Weiner, Mirko (Basaldella), Louis H. Sullivan, Jo Davidson, Francis D. Millet, Buell Mullen, Glyn Warren Philpot, Barry Faulkner, J. Scott Williams, Ellen G. Emmet Rand, Charles W. Hawthorne, Francis O. Salisbury, Sidney E. Dickinson, Fred Conway, Paul Trebilcock and Leopold G. Seyffert.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Scheinman, Muriel

• Fine Arts

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8114475

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68339