Art Instruction Books Metropolitan Museum Seminars in Art 19 Books w/Prints 1959

Description: Wonderful Estate Find! New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959. First Edition; First Printing. 19 Hardcover Books. All include multiple plate prints ~10+ each book, review questions, subject of next portfolio, and pronunciation guides. Metropolitan Seminars in Art, John Canaday, Art Editor and Critic, The New York Times. Minor to moderate wear and discoloration to hardcover and binding. Some binding and hardcover have a few small bumps/rips/tears. Minor page discoloration throughout, no markings/writings or torn/ripped pages. Binding is tight. Faint vintage odor. Includes Portfolios 1-12Portfolio 1 What is a painting?Portfolio 2 RealismPortfolio 3 ExpressionismPortfolio 4 AbstractionPortfolio 5 Composition as patternPortfolio 6 Composition as structurePortfolio 7 Composition as expressionPortfolio 8 FrescoPortfolio 9 Tempera and oilPortfolio 10 Water color, pastel, and printsPortfolio 11 The artist as a social criticPortfolio 12 The artist as a visionary and the following Portfolios:Portfolio A Glory and grandeurPortfolio F The world triumphantPortfolio G The world dividingPortfolio H The war of illusionsPortfolio I The quick and the deadPortfolio J Summer idylPortfolio K Painting in transition Total of 19 books The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met",[a] is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world.[8] Its permanent collection contains over two million works,[9] divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Museum Mile in Manhattan's Upper East Side is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.The New York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of Incorporation on April 13, 1870, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations".[83] This legislation was supplemented later by the 1893 Act, Chapter 476, which required that its collections "shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year."[84] The founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.[3] The museum first opened on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue.[85] John Taylor Johnston, a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum, served as its first president, and the publisher George Palmer Putnam came on board as its founding superintendent. The artist Eastman Johnson acted as co-founder of the museum.[86] Various other industrialists of the age served as co-founders, including Howard Potter. The former Civil War officer, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, was named as its first director. He served from 1879 to 1904. Under their guidance, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Mrs. Nicholas Cruger Mansion also known as the Douglas Mansion (James Renwick, 1853–54, demolished) at 128 West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations proved temporary, as the growing collection required more space than the mansion could provide.[87] Between 1879 and 1895, the museum created and operated a series of educational programs, known as the Metropolitan Museum of Art Schools, intended to provide vocational training and classes on fine arts.[88] No other information is available. Item is being sold in as found, as is condition. See all photos for details on condition. Please note that most of our items are vintage, meaning older, and have had homes before we found them. We are not experts in any field but we do try to describe our items as well as we can and take several pictures. So please look at all photos carefully for more details. Please ask any questions before purchasing. All questions are promptly answered. We try to as accurate as possible, errors do happen. If you should see something out of sorts or if the shipping cost seems excessive, please let me know. 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