Herschel V. Jones

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Herschel V. Jones

The Imprint of a Great Collector

Lisa Dickinson Michaux

Table of Contents

$39.95 Cloth
ISBN: 0-8166-4904-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4904-4

A richly illustrated guide to one of the most significant collections of prints in America, including luminaries Rembrandt, Dürer, Whistler, and Cassatt.

In 1916, Herschel V. Jones, a distinguished and passionate art collector, purchased 5,600 prints from William Mead Ladd of Portland, Oregon. Jones promptly gave his newly acquired etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the museum’s distinguished Ladd and Jones collection was born.

In H. V. Jones, Lisa Dickinson Michaux sheds new light on the creation of this extraordinary collection. Through in-depth essays, she reveals Jones’s ambitious goals as well as his tenacity—he requested anonymity from the museum until he had “secured rare additional prints to fill in the gaps, making it a collection that represents the entire history of the graphic arts.” Eventually Jones added more than six hundred prints.

This beautifully produced volume, abounding with full-color illustrations, reproduces over one hundred of the most important and interesting prints in the Institute’s Ladd and Jones collection and paints a vivid picture of these pioneering collectors and the history of print collecting in America at the end of the nineteenth century.

Lisa Dickinson Michaux is associate curator of prints and drawings at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Distributed for The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

224 pages | 80 color photos, 15 halftones | 9 x 12 | 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments

A Splendid Foundation
Lisa Dickinson Michaux

A Monumental Gesture
Lisa Dickinson Michaux

Notes to the Reader

A Selection from the Herschel V. Jones Gift of Prints
Lisa Dickinson Michaux, Marla J. Kinney, Jane Immler Satkowski

Early Woodcuts and Metalcuts
Printmaking in Southern Europe before 1600
Renaissance Printmaking in the North
Printmaking in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Printmaking in the Modern Era

Bibliography
Index of Artists

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Herschel V. Jones *The Imprint of a Great Collector* Lisa Dickinson Michaux Table of Contents		$39.95 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4904-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4904-4
A richly illustrated guide to one of the most significant collections of prints in America, including luminaries Rembrandt, Dürer, Whistler, and Cassatt. In 1916, Herschel V. Jones, a distinguished and passionate art collector, purchased 5,600 prints from William Mead Ladd of Portland, Oregon. Jones promptly gave his newly acquired etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the museum’s distinguished Ladd and Jones collection was born. In H. V. Jones, Lisa Dickinson Michaux sheds new light on the creation of this extraordinary collection. Through in-depth essays, she reveals Jones’s ambitious goals as well as his tenacity—he requested anonymity from the museum until he had “secured rare additional prints to fill in the gaps, making it a collection that represents the entire history of the graphic arts.” Eventually Jones added more than six hundred prints. This beautifully produced volume, abounding with full-color illustrations, reproduces over one hundred of the most important and interesting prints in the Institute’s Ladd and Jones collection and paints a vivid picture of these pioneering collectors and the history of print collecting in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Lisa Dickinson Michaux is associate curator of prints and drawings at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Distributed for The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 224 pages \| 80 color photos, 15 halftones \| 9 x 12 \| 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Preface and Acknowledgments A Splendid Foundation Lisa Dickinson Michaux A Monumental Gesture Lisa Dickinson Michaux Notes to the Reader A Selection from the Herschel V. Jones Gift of Prints Lisa Dickinson Michaux, Marla J. Kinney, Jane Immler Satkowski Early Woodcuts and Metalcuts Printmaking in Southern Europe before 1600 Renaissance Printmaking in the North Printmaking in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Printmaking in the Modern Era Bibliography Index of Artists