Purpose-Built: Duveen and the Commercial Art Gallery
In late 1912, the Duveen Brothers opened their first purpose-built art gallery in New York City at 720 Fifth Avenue. Sited in a residential neighborhood favored by the Gilded Age elite and borrowing its architectural vocabulary from the Beaux-Arts tradition, it signaled the epitome of upper-class do...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Nineteenth-century art worldwide 2021-07, Vol.20 (2), p.78 |
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Zusammenfassung: | In late 1912, the Duveen Brothers opened their first purpose-built art gallery in New York City at 720 Fifth Avenue. Sited in a residential neighborhood favored by the Gilded Age elite and borrowing its architectural vocabulary from the Beaux-Arts tradition, it signaled the epitome of upper-class domesticity, but the building was also a finely tuned machine for the business of selling art. This article explores how these two distinct modes of operation were managed and integrated, utilizing a virtual reconstruction of the now demolished building developed from the original architectural plans recently discovered in the archives at the Getty Research Institute. |
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ISSN: | 1543-1002 1543-1002 |
DOI: | 10.29411/ncaw.2021.20.2.4 |