Bibliography
General Books:
Business Buys American Art, forewords by David Praeger and David Solinger, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1960.
The New Patrons of the Arts, Gideon Chagy. Harry Abrams, Inc: New York, 1972.
Chicago: The Sky's The Limit, Hedy B. Landman, 1984.
Business and the Arts, How They Meet the Challenge, Diane J. Gingold, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1984, p. 84.
Art and Business, by Marjorie Jacobson, Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Art and Business, by Marjorie Jacobson, London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Art for Work: the New Renaissance in Corporate Collecting, by Marjorie Jacobson, Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, c. 1993.
The Art of Leadership: Building BusinessArts Alliances, by David Finn, Judith Jedlicka. Abbeville Press, 1999. ISBN 0789205661
Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s, by Chin Tao Wu, May 2002, 288 pages, Verso Books, ISBN: 1859846130
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A Selected list of Books and catalogues of individual corporate art collections
Organized alphabetically by the Corporate name.
Unless otherwise noted, the publisher is the corporation.
West, West, West: Major Paintings from The Anschutz Collection. Elizabeth Cunningham (Denver, CO: The Anschutz Collection in Association with the University of Nebraska Press, 1991.) Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11", 132 pp., 84 color plates, 68 artist biographies, essay.
Painters and the American West, essays by Joan Carpenter Troccoli and Sarah Anschutz Hunt, published by the Denver Art Museum and Yale University, 218 pages, 200 full color illustrations, 2000. (Anschutz Collection).
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Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object, by Leslie Ferrin of Ferrin Gallery, GUILD Publishing, Madison, WI, 2000. Several of the works from the Celestial Seasonings collection are featured in the book. Traces the transformation of the contemporary American teapot from its functional, traditional origins in the early 1960s to its present status, as a sculptural object and important genre for both artists and collectors. 120 color photographs.
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Myths and Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean , An 80-page book of essays, photographs, images and historical information published by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation as part of a three-year millennial project examining the cultural development of Florida and surrounding Caribbean region.
Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico. The catalogue for the exhibition "Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial Mexico." (Kislak Collection)
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Art at Work, The Chase Manhattan Collection, essays by J. Walter Severinghaus, Dorothy Miller, Robert Rosenblum; forewords by David Rockefeller, Willard C. Butcher. Edited and designed by Marshall Lee, 333 pp, 250 color reproductions. E. P. Dutton, Inc, New York, 1984.
Contemporary Art from New York: The Collection of The Chase Manhattan Bank, The Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (exhibition catalogue), 1989. With essays by Willard C. Butcher, David Rockefeller, Brooks Adams, Yoshiaki Tohno, Shigeo Anzai.
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Did you know.............
that the art program of J P Morgan Chase Bank was started by David Rockefeller in 1959. The collection which is the result of the merger of six large corporate collections, now numbers of 20,000 works of art.
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CIBA-GEIGY Collects: Aspects of Abstraction, published by Rice University and CIBA-GEIGY Corporation, 1981. Catalogue from the exhibition at the Sewall Art Gallery
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Works by Women Artists, from the collection of Lang Communications. Catalogue of the traveling exhibition, 1991.
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The CIGNA Collection: Art at Liberty Place, 1991. Published by CIGNA.
New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection, edited with an introduction by Sam Hunter, Commodities Corporation, 1981 Paulson, Kristen.
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Indian Cultures in American Art, Patricia Trenton and Patrick Houlihan, copublished by the Southwest Museum and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles, 1984.
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The Consolidated Freightways, Inc. Collection, with statements by Raymond F. O'Brien and Judy Kay; introduction by Rod Slemmons. Palo Alto, Calif.: Consolidated Freightways, c. 1985. 150 p.: ill. (some col.).
The Consolidated Freightways, Inc. Collection, foreword by Raymond F. O'Brien, statement by Judy Kay, and text by Susan Ehrens, 1988, 230 pages.
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Aspekte Konstruktiver Kunst, Sammlung McCrory Corporation, New York, Willy Rotzler, 1977. The catalogue from the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich.
Konstruktive Konzepte: eine Geschichte der konstruktiven Kunst vom Kubismus bis heute, Willy Rotzler, 1977, Zurich: ABC.
McCrory Corp.
Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition: Selections from the McCrory Corporation Collection, Willy Rotzler, NY: McCrory Corp., 1979. Limited to 5000 copies, 94 pp, 62 illustrations, 28 in color; 5 text illustrations. Essay, catalogue, artists' biographies. catalogue from the traveling exhibition.
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Kick Out the Jams, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1980. A catalogue of the exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. James Duffy Collection
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In the Watercolor Tradition: British Works on Paper from the Mellon Bank Collection. Exhibition: November 3, 1990 + January 6, 1991. Curated by Diana Strazdes. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1990.
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Four Decades: The Hotel du Pont Collection, foreword by Robert Frankel, introduction by Rowland Elzea, Delaware Art Museum, 1982, 61 page illustrated catalogue.
Hotel du Pont Story, Harry V. Ayres, Serendipity Press, 1990.
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A Southern Collection. Pennington, Estill Curtis. Augusta, GA: Morris Communications Corp., 1992.
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Wilkins, David G, Paintings and Sculpture of the Duquesne Club. Pittsburgh: Art and Library Committee, Duquesne Club, 1986. Photographs by Harold Corsini. 110 pages, illustrated. Reprint in 2001.
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Frontier Sublime, Alaskan Art from the Juneau Empire Collection, Pennington, Estill Curtis. Hardcover: 112 pages; Morris Museum of Art; (December 1997) ISBN: 1890021008 (Morris Communications Corporation)
Art and Artists of the South, University of South Carolina Press, 1984. Catalogue to the traveling exhibition. (Morris Communications Corporation)
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Janet B. Dominik. The Fieldstone Collection of Early California Art. Newport Beach: The Fieldstone Corporation, 1989.
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The Nabisco Brands Collection of Cream of Wheat Advertising Art, Dave Stivers, 1986, 180 pages
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The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago, introduction by Gaylord Freeman, foreword by Katharine Kuh, Chicago, 1974.
Highlights of the First Chicago Art Collection, text by John Hallmark Neff, Chicago, 1995.
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Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Neuberger Berman Collection, catalogue from the exhibition organized by the Henry Art Gallery. (Neuberger Berman Collection)
The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art, by Roy R. Neuberger, December 2002. (Neuberger Berman Collection)
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Transmutations: Alchemy in Art: Selected Works from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Lawrence M. Principe and Lloyd DeWitt. Chemical Heritage Foundation: Philadelphia, PA, 2002. Illustrations. viii + 40 pp, paperback. 22.2 x 26.0 cm. ISBN 0941901327. (Available from the CHF for $12.95).
A description of the two collections now owned by the Chemical Heritage Foundation: the paintings acquired by Chester G. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Scientific Company, and by Roy Eddleman, founder of Spectrum Laboratories.
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Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, by Alastair Duncan, published by Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, distributed by Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, England, 1998. 270 pages, hardbound. ISBN 1851492747
The Pacific Enterprises Art Collection, Ellen Oppenheim, brochure about the collection, 1989.
Facets of the Collection, Judy Kay, Mark Levy and John Bloom, Pacific Telesis Group, 1988, catalogue of the collection, 176 pages.
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Faberge Eggs, Imperial Russian Fantasies, Christopher Forbes, Harry Abrams, Inc. Paperback. (Forbes)
Toy Boats 1870-1955: A Pictorial History, Jacques Milet and Robert Forbes, Charles Scribner's Sons. Hardcover. (Forbes)
Toy Armies, Peter Johnson, Doubleday. Hardcover, (Forbes)
War a la Mode, Meissonier, Detaille, de Neuville & Berne-Bellecour, Christopher Forbes and Margaret Kelly. (Forbes)
Masterpieces from the House of Faberge, Christopher Forbes, with essays by Alexander von Solodkoff, Marilyn Swezey, A. Kenneth Snowman, Paul Schaffer, Dr. Roy Betteley, and a catalogue raisonn? of the Forbes Faberge collection, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1984.
Faberge Fantasies: The Forbes Magazine Collection, Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, Milan: Edizioni Electa, 1987.
Faberge: The Forbes Collection, Christopher Forbes and Robyn TromeurBrenner, Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc, 1999. 296 pages.
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Did you know.........
that the Forbes Collection includes a large collection of toy boats, toy soldiers
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Fred Harvey Fine Art Collection. Essays by Byron Harvey III, Joe Ben Wheat, Richard Howard, Richard Conn, and Jerold Collings. Heard Museum, 1976 [catalogue for the exhibition]
People of the First Man, 2nd printing, Promontory Press, 1982, hardcover (1st printing, 1976, Dutton Publishing Company) (Internorth Collection)
The Age of Exploration, Joslyn Art Museum, 1980. (Internorth Collection)
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art, critical essays by Thomas E. Crow, Sabine Eckmann, Joanne Heyler and Pepe Karmel, and an interview with Eli and Edythe Broad by curators Stephanie Barron and Lynn Zelevansky. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 2001-2002, by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 130 color and 25 black and white images. (Kaufman & Broad)
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Ansel Adams: Classic Images, published by Little, Brown & Company, 1985, contains all 75 images of Pacific Telesis Group's Museum Set. The book was first published as a softcover catalogue for presentation of the Museum Set at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1985.
The Painewebber Art Collection, introduction by Jack Flam commentaries by Monique Beudert and Jennifer Wells, published by Rizzoli Books of New York, 1995, 304 pages. (UBS Painewebber)
Beyond Illustration: The Art of Playboy, foreword by Sam Yates, preface by Arthur Paul, 1978.
Catalogue of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey art collection. Art for the Public, 1985.
American Paintings at Procter & Gamble: The Historic Cincinnati Collection, by John Wilson, catalogue from the exhibition, Taft Museum of Art, 2001.
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Art in Business: The Philip Morris Story, 1979, Sam Hunter, a book discussing Philip Morris's role as a leading corporate supporter of the arts.
Contemporary American Art from the Philip Morris Collection, 1990, exhibition catalogue, Knoxville Museum of Art.
Philip Morris and the Arts, 1990, a 30-year report on Philip Morris' involvement in cultural affairs and the arts.
Philip Morris and the Arts, 1995, a 35year report on Philip Morris' involvement in cultural programs and the arts.
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Edward Jacobson and Terence Pitts, Arizona Photographers: The Snell & Wilmer Collection (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1990). This collection was purchased by Bud Jacobson, CEO of the Snell & Wilmer Law firm, as an anthology of the work of photographers living in Arizona. Two Pt/Pd prints are in the collection. Foreword by Edward Jacobson. 80 pp ISBN 093826219X paper.
The Steinway Collection, Steinway and Sons: New York, 1919. Subtitled "The Steinway Collection of Paintings by American Artists together with Prose Portraits of the Great Composers by James Huneker."
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Art at Progressive: Prints from a Corporate Collection, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 1983. Catalogue to the exhibition.
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Contemplating the American Watercolor, Dr. David Park Curry, Curator of American Art, Denver Museum, 1985. (Transco Energy)
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The Reader's Digest Collection: Manet to Picasso, 1988.
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The Refco Collection, by Adam Brooks, Eleanor Heartney, Anne Rorimer, Sue Taylor, published by Refco Group Ltd, Chicago, January 1990, 195 pages, illustrated. Hardback and paperback. ISBN: 0962570311.
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Did you know ...
that since 1999, the Microsoft Corporation has sponsored an art program of lectures, art tours and exhibitions for employees, guests and members of the local community.
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Selections from the Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art, Cecille Caterson, Lucinda Gedeon, Joan Hemphill. California State University at Long Beach, 1978.Catalogue of the exhibition.
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, articles by Henry Hopkins, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Nora Halpern. Hardbound catalogue, Volume II.
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An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation, Richard Brettell
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Standing Rainbows: Railroad Promotion of Art, the West and Its Native People, catalogue from the exhibition at the Kansas State Historical Society, 1981. (Santa Fe Collection)
Santa Fe Collection of Southwestern Art, catalogue from the exhibition at the Gilcrease Museum, 1983.
Visions and Visionaries The Art & Artists of the Santa Fe Railway, illustrated book on the history of the collection published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1991. Sandra D'Emilio and Suzan Campbell, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1991.
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Did you know......
that the Santa Fe and Burlington Northern Railroad corporate art collection includes landscape paintings of Glacier National Park by John Fery; Blackfoot Indian portraits by Winold Reiss; and Blackfoot Indian War Record canvases.
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Drawings by Sculptors, Two Decades of Nonobjective Art in the Seagram Collection, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc., 1984.
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Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Art Collection, Janice Oresman, 1982. (Shearson Lehman Brothers)
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Did you know..........
that the Hallmark Photographic Collection now includes over 4200 prints by over 600 of the most significant photographers in the history of the medium. Some of the largest holdings include over 300 photographs by Harry Callahan, 240 by Andre Kertesz, and over 70 by Dorothea Lange.
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