20th Century America
20th Century Europe
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art and art history
art collectors
art studies
Author_Patricia Fernandez Lorenzo
biography
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HIspanic Society of America
New York City
New York State
philanthropy
Spain
Spanish art
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Studies
The Gilded Age
Product details
- ISBN 9780815604839
- Weight: 25g
- Dimensions: 229 x 152mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became the foremost collector and face of Spanish art in the United States with the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. This organization, which served as a bridge between artists in Spain and wealthy patrons in the States, was the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and passion for Spanish culture for Huntington, one he would grapple with throughout his public and intellectual life.
In Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America, Patricia Fernández Lorenzo offers, for the first time in English, a complete biography of Huntington, tracing his enthusiasm for Spain and the arts from his childhood, to his marriage to sculptor Anna Hyatt and his crisis of conscience in the wake of the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Drawing heavily from Archer’s correspondence and from Anna Hyatt Huntington’s papers, housed at Syracuse University, Fernández Lorenzo offers a full, deeply human portrait of one of the great patrons of Spanish art, giving a comprehensive look at Huntington’s role in defining Hispanicism in the United States.
In Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America, Patricia Fernández Lorenzo offers, for the first time in English, a complete biography of Huntington, tracing his enthusiasm for Spain and the arts from his childhood, to his marriage to sculptor Anna Hyatt and his crisis of conscience in the wake of the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Drawing heavily from Archer’s correspondence and from Anna Hyatt Huntington’s papers, housed at Syracuse University, Fernández Lorenzo offers a full, deeply human portrait of one of the great patrons of Spanish art, giving a comprehensive look at Huntington’s role in defining Hispanicism in the United States.
Patricia Fernández Lorenzo is an Honorary Collaborator of Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She worked as an entrepreneur in Spain, Lisbon, and Brussels, and was general director for European Affairs in the provincial government of Bizkaia in the Basque region of Spain.
