DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: David Duncan: Collector and Patron:
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- TPCDUN_151006_01.JPG: Duncan Phillips: Collector and Patron:
"The really good things of all ages and all periods can be brought together... with such a delightful result that we recognize the university of art and the special affinities of artists."
-- Duncan Phillips
Duncan Phillips, the founding director of The Phillips Collection, set for himself the task of defining modern art and its origins, starting with 19th-century sources and moving into the present. He installed works by various artists in close proximity to each other to discover relationships between different periods and schools. He saw his museum as an educational institution with "a few great masters" acting as "inspiration for living artists." Phillips acquired works of art according to his preferences, focusing on what was current in the United States and Europe, and helped lead a national effort to promote Modernism in this country.
As early as 1926, Phillips wrote of his collecting approach, "I have had more pleasure in discovering and helping some new men whose modest genius might have passed unnoticed, and others whose amazing originality is in advance of their time." While the works of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and others have become the cornerstone of his collection, Phillips gave modern American and European painters equal status with these artists. He developed relationships with several, providing encouragement through acquisitions, exhibition opportunities, and financial assistance. He also never lost sight of his initial goal to show how American painting was "part of the main channel of artistic progress." Critics like Guy Pene du Bois applauded Phillips's efforts, saying he "buys art for the love of it... he is making a live collection."
- TPCDUN_151006_04.JPG: March 1, 1930: John Graham to Duncan Phillips:
John Graham expresses his admiration of Phillips's courage and ideals in the development of his collection. A year earlier, Phillips hosted Graham's first solo show at the museum.
- TPCDUN_151006_16.JPG: January 27, 1937: John Marin to Duncan Phillips:
John Marin explains how much he has appreciated Phillips's patronage and looks forward to an upcoming visit. Phillips had been exhibiting Marin's art for eight years and had already acquired nearly 16 examples of his work.
- TPCDUN_151006_20.JPG: September 28, 1945: Pierre Bonnard to Duncan and Marjorie Phillips:
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Phillips,
Today Mr. De Hauke brought me your very kind letter. I am extremely grateful for your generous remembrance and as for me, I too, often think of my delightful time with you in Washington. Today I also received the photographs of the special exhibition you have put on of paintings by me in your collection. I thank you for your kind consideration. I still work despite my age. I imagine Mrs. Duncan Phillips continues to paint as sensitively as in the paintings I saw on my American trip.
With kindest remembrances, Bonnard
- TPCDUN_151006_24.JPG: 1946: Arthur Dove to Duncan and Marjorie Phillips:
Arthur Dove offers his sincerest thanks with all of his "heart and soul" to the Phillipses for their assistance throughout his career. Phillips provided Dove with a stipend and by 1946 had acquired over 40 of the artist's works.
- TPCDUN_151006_29.JPG: Installation c. 1951 of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party with paintings by Chaim Soutine.
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