Art Encounters
Selections from the Cornell Fine Arts Museum Collection
Author: Ena Heller, Elizabeth Coulter and Amy Galpin
This beautifully designed volume is the first to celebrate the museum's broad and eclectic holdings, including Old Masters, photography and works on paper, American and European paintings, 20th-century works and an exciting new contemporary collection, as well objects, artefacts, and archaeological fragments from world cultures.
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This beautifully designed volume is the first to celebrate the museum's broad and eclectic holdings, including Old Masters, photography and works on paper, American and European paintings, 20th-century works and an exciting new contemporary collection, as well objects, artefacts, and archaeological fragments from world cultures.
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With one of the oldest and most distinguished collections in Florida, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College can boast of more than 5,500 objects from antiquity to the contemporary. This beautifully designed volume is the first to celebrate the museum's broad and eclectic holdings, including Old Masters, photography and works on paper, American and European paintings, 20th-century works and an exciting new contemporary collection, as well objects, artefacts, and archaeological fragments from world cultures.
Contents: Foreword; Open-Ended Thinking: The Role of Campus Museums in the Twenty-First Century; Highlights from the Collection; Collectors and Collecting at Rollins College; Further Reading; Endnotes.
About the Author
Elizabeth Coulter is Dale Montgomery Fellow at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.Amy Galpin is Chief Curator at The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, FL.Ena Heller is the Director of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College.
- Only book available on this extensive collection Highlights the museum's strength in European paintings with works by Old Masters Rosselli, Tiepolo, and D
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