Castano Galleries records

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Grandin, Isabella

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Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987

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Art historian; biographer of Thomas Eakins. From the description of Letters : Little Compton, R.I., and New York, to Seymour Adelman, 1971 Oct. 8, 1975 Apr. 12, and 1981 Feb. 15. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28406825 Museum officer, art historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Lloyd Goodrich : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419785 Museum director, art historian. ...

Beam, Philip C.

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Philip C. Beam (1910-2005) was an art historian from Brunswick, Me. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip C. Beam, 1984 June 18-Sept. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477473 Philip Beam was Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Bowdoin College. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1956. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155900128 Art historian, educator; Brunswick, Maine. Born 1910. ...

Venturi, Lionello, 1885-1961

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DANES, GIBSON A.

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Gibson A. Danes, born in 1910, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936, and earned a Bachelor of Science (1937) and a Master's degree (1938) from Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1949. Danes began teaching art history at Yale in 1947. He was dean of the Yale School of Architecture and Design from January to June of 1958, and of the School of Art and Architecture from 1958 to 1967. He was acting chairman of the Departme...

Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000

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Art museum director. From the description of Reminiscences of Perry Townsend Rathbone : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723354 Perry Townsend Rathbone (1911-2000) was a museum director from New York, N.Y. He was a curator at the Detroit Institute of Art, 1936-1940, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1940-1955, and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1954-1972. At the time o...

Castano, Giovanni, 1896-1978

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Painter, art dealer; Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of Giovanni Castano interview, 1973 June 17-1974 June 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185145 From the description of Oral history interview with Giovanni Castano, 1973 June 17-1974 June 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007030 Giovanni Castano (1896-1978) was a painter and art dealer from Boston, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Giovanni Castano, 1973 June...

Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1909-1988

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Art collector; Provincetown, Mass.; d. 1988. Chrysler opened his museum in 1958 in Provincetown in an old church, then moved the museum in 1970 to a larger permanent location in Norfolk, Va. From the description of Walter P. Chrysler interview, 1964 Sept. 5 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79701522 Art collector; Provincetown, Mass.; d. 1988. Chrysler opened his museum in 1958 in Provincetown in an old church...

Castano Galleries (Boston, Mass.)

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Art gallery, Boston, Mass. Founded in 1931 by Giovanni Castano, also known as John Castano. Castano attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was an assistant to Philip Hale. He was a scenic artist for the Boston Opera Company and for the Grand Opera in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Depression, he returned to Boston where he opened a gallery on Newbury Street specializing in European and American paintings, acted as an agent for Wildenstein and Co.,...

Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985

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Art historian, museum administrator; Detroit, Mich.; d. 1985. Director, Detroit Institute of Arts from 1945-1962. From the description of Edgar Preston (E.P.) Richardson interview, 1978 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80507170 Art historian, museum administrator; Detroit, Mich.; d. 1985. Director, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1945-1962, Winterthur Museum, 1962-1966, Board Member and President of Pennsylvania Academy of t...

Denghausen, Franz H., 1911-

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Sculptor (Pigeon Cove, Mass.). From the description of Franz H. Denghausen papers, ca. 1933-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576705 ...

Hale, Lilian Westcott, 1880-1963

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Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965

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Harvard Professor of Museology. From the description of Lecture notes and related manuscripts, 1926-1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80369439 Professor of fine arts. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726511 Paul Joseph Sachs, the first associate director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and a Harvard profes...