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A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
Published to accompany a major touring exhib ition from January 1999 to September 1999, this book focuses on the collection of Victorian art built up by Merton Russe ll-Cotes and now held in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and M useum, Bournemouth. '
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First published January 1, 1999
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January 8, 2024
The book is published in association with a 1999 exhibition of a selection of paintings from Russell-Cotes Gallery at Dahesh Museum New York and Frick Museum Pittsburgh. Russell-Cotes, being a reasonably unknown and small gallery, could compete with any top British art museum for its representation of Victorian art - Tate and National included.
In 1999, the Gallery was undergoing renovations, and they sent a set of paintings on the tour. The exhibition had fewer than 50 paintings, but each is represented reasonably well in the book with detailed provenance, a brief story, and a color photo (not always a full page). The book also has three introductory articles about the collector, including one focused on Edwin Long (Russell-Cotes Gallery is the major holder of Long’s paintings). Overall, a useful and informative book especially since there are no other options - it is the only recent book about the gallery that includes color reproductions of the art. The only thing to be sorry about is that only a fraction of the paintings from the gallery were included in the exhibition and the book and most not even shown full page.
In 1999, the Gallery was undergoing renovations, and they sent a set of paintings on the tour. The exhibition had fewer than 50 paintings, but each is represented reasonably well in the book with detailed provenance, a brief story, and a color photo (not always a full page). The book also has three introductory articles about the collector, including one focused on Edwin Long (Russell-Cotes Gallery is the major holder of Long’s paintings). Overall, a useful and informative book especially since there are no other options - it is the only recent book about the gallery that includes color reproductions of the art. The only thing to be sorry about is that only a fraction of the paintings from the gallery were included in the exhibition and the book and most not even shown full page.
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