![]() ![]() ![]() From an artistic family, he at first resisted becoming an artist before realizing that he had both talent for and interest in painting. Ivan Le Lorraine Albright occupies a unique place in the history of American art. print Purchased with the Wally Findlay Acquisitions Fund, 1992.21 A 2019-2022 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation has enabled research and documentation of the collection, with the goal of making it fully available for teaching and research, both digitally and in person. This growth reflects the evolving needs of the teaching collection, as well as the collecting interests of Rollins alumni, members of the community, and other RMA supporters. The collection is growing, with recent acquisitions including works by nineteenth and early-twentieth century women artists, early art photography, and American modernism, both abstract and figurative. With particular strengths in nineteenth century landscape, the Ashcan School, and printmaking, the American collection is an excellent resource for teachers and students, and also forms a key component of permanent collection exhibitions. Including oil paintings, sculptures in marble and bronze, drawings, prints, and photographs as well as mixed media works, the collection tells the story of American art from its early portrait-focused days to the heights of modernism. Despite his significant influence, very few securely attributed works by him survive, consequently making the recently re-discovered River Landscape with a Group of Figures by a Waterfall an important and extremely rare masterpiece.The American collection is a core component of the Rollins Museum of Art's mission as a teaching museum. Mullins was one of this small group of native-born Irish painters, active in Dublin in the 1760s and 1770s, who transformed the art world in Ireland. The Irish gentry’s taste for the classical played an important role in the development of the Irish landscape tradition through their patronage, such as the four signed upright Italianate landscapes which George Mullins painted for the Earl of Charlemont’s House at Marino in Clontarf, Dublin. Their tastes were classically defined and not only their houses, but the parklands themselves, were moulded and planted in imitation of Claude’s paintings and the landscapes of Italy. Irish art patrons such as the Earl of Milltown, the Earl of Charlemont and the Earl Bishop of Derry also set off on Grand Tours to collect pictures and objets d’art for their homes back in Ireland. Robert Crone, Wooded Classical Landscape, with Figures Relaxing and Gardening by a River. John Butts is an exemplary product of these Schools, whose work was much inspired by the Old Masters, and especially by Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa. In this way, the Italian Renaissance and Northern European Baroque and Rococo masters of landscape were presented to impressionable young Irishmen. The Schools were the medium through which young Irish students were introduced to Continental art, by means of copying original master prints, drawings and paintings. The Schools were close to the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris, in that instruction was mainly directed towards young tradesmen. ![]() Parliament encouraged art and industry by voting sums of money to the Dublin Society, and thus the State became involved in promoting art and industry in a manner close to the approach of Continental states. As patriotic consciousness was developing among the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry, it resulted in the setting up of cultural organisations like the Dublin Society (1731) and the Royal Irish Academy (1755). One way was through Irish artists’ access to Netherlandish, French and Italian prints, drawings and paintings in the Dublin Society Schools’ collection. ![]()
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