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Evergreen - The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs (Hardcover)
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Evergreen - The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs (Hardcover)
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Evergreen-the long-time home of the Garrett family in north
Baltimore-offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American
Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse
collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture,
sculpture, ceramics, and rare books. Acquired by two generations of
the prominent Garrett family, self-described "collectors by
instinct and by education," the assemblage of fine and decorative
arts is remarkable in scope and inventiveness. Now part of the
Johns Hopkins University, the mansion endures as a rare visual
encyclopedia, representative of nearly all major architectural and
design movements indicative of America's transition from a
predominantly agrarian society to a world industrial power. This
meticulously researched and handsomely illustrated volume honors
the distinct and richly layered collections that characterize
Evergreen. The book opens with a history of the philanthropic
family itself, which helped run the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
and develop many of the Monument City's most important civic and
cultural institutions. Tracing their evolution as collectors and
philanthropists, the book charts the family's artistic tastes and
aesthetic sensibilities from the Gilded Age to the World Wars while
also describing the physical landscape and architecture of
Evergreen. The Asian Art section explores the world renowned
Garrett Collection of Chinese and Japanese art. As one of the
earliest American collections of Japanese art assembled, it
provides an important insight into collecting habits of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among its highlights is
one of only a half dozen examples of blue lacquer known to exist,
as well as examples of Chinese Imperial porcelain. The Decorative
Arts section highlights the furniture, textiles, and other applied
arts largely commissioned or collected by the Garretts. Beginning
with the Aesthetic Movement of the 1880s and the talents of
renowned design firms such as Herter Brothers, Liberty &
Company, and Louis C. Tiffany and Company, Evergreen's interiors
have embraced each succeeding decorative trend-including the
Bourbon, Colonial, Empire, and Renaissance revivals, the Arts and
Crafts movement, and European modernism. The Fine Arts section
showcases modernist art assembled by Alice Warder Garrett and her
husband, Ambassador John Work Garrett. Credited as the first
Baltimore "gallery" to exhibit a Picasso, Evergreen's collection of
drawings, paintings, and sculpture document the couple's aesthetic
appreciation and connoisseurship, which began at the threshold of
World War I. Included are works by such artists as Pierre Bonnard,
Jean-Edouard Vuillard, Leon Bakst, Miguel Covarrubias, Raoul Dufy,
Herbert Haseltine, Amedeo Modigliani, and Ignacio Zuloaga.
Evergreen's John Work Garrett Library, built between the years
immediately following the American Civil War and World War II,
ranks among the most extensive private American collections of its
kind from that period. Highlights include a recently discovered and
ambitious rare book desiderata manuscript from the headiest period
of John Work Garrett's book collecting in 1929; an original John
James Audubon engraved metal plate for his double-elephant folio
Birds of America, a complete copy of which is also held by the
library; the Garrett Zafarnama, a sumptuously illustrated
fifteenth-century Persian illuminated manuscript by the renowned
artist Bihzad; and all four seventeenth-century folios of
Shakespeare's collected plays. A celebration of one of Baltimore's
grandest nineteenth-century mansions, Evergreen reveals fascinating
life stories through the richly preserved family archive and the
historical context that remains through Evergreen's evolving
architectural spaces and growing collections. This volume will
appeal to art collectors and lovers of historic houses, museums,
and libraries, as well as readers fascinated by the intersection of
art and architecture, literature and history, and the history of
ideas and collecting.
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