Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Collection in the Making: A Survey of the Problems Involved in Collecting Pictures, Together With Brief Estimates of the Painters in the Phillips Memorial Gallery
Let me state at the outset that this publication is not a handbook. Institutions of learning require handbooks. The Phillips Memorial Gallery is, as yet, something different, something younger and more malleable than an Institution. Its Collection however is purposeful and is being thoughtfully made to carry out not one but several functions. As I have taken pains to tell, in the following paragraphs on A Collection in the Making, I merely wish in this volume to put a number of my ideas into general circulation, believing that many people might be interested, and that most painters should be cheered to know that a layman cares enough about their art to experiment with means for conserving, exhibiting, interpreting and inspir ing its continuance and its continuity. This book, like the Collection itself, deals with variety of method and with change of outlook as two vital elements in life and art. A handbook, with a description of each work of art, a bibliography for scholars, and a pedigree for the pictures, tracing them back as far as research can go, such a book will certainly be needed in the future when the Collection has reached that stage of development which may be called maturity. This is the record of the youth of an idea, the concept of a small, intimate museum combined with an experiment station - and it marks the first stage of our progress towards the realiza tion of an ideal. Later editions will report our advance and be landmarks on our way. The faults of this edition will be corrected in the next and we ask for it the reader's indulgence.
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