AFA 18th Anniversary

18th Anniversary 102 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Fig. 9: Edward Hopper (1882–1967), City Roofs , 1932. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 inches. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of an anonymous donor (P.2016.11). © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by Whitney Museum of American Art. The painting depicts the rooftop of Hopper’s Greenwich Village studio, which he maintained for more than 50 years. The Whitney Museum was given a 1932 Edward Hopper painting, City Roofs (Fig. 9), by an anonymous donor, as well as a wealth of archival materials from the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Garden ’s Art Collectors’ Council purchased two paintings for the museum, George Tooker’s 1950 Bathers ( Bath House ) and Albert Herter’s Woman with a Fan (ca. 1895). The Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia, acquired a rare English Chinoiserie sugar and tea caddy set by Royal goldsmith Thomas Heming (1722–1801) (Fig. 10). The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, acquired Portrait of the Art Dealer Heinrich Thannhauser by Lovis Corinth (1918). Corinth was an artist revered as a critical figure in the history of German expressionism; in 1904, his sitter founded Moderne Galerie in Munich, which was at the forefront of the art scene. Also entering the collection was Head (circa 1913), one of less than thirty sculptures carved by Amedeo Modigliani (Fig. 11). The Morgan Library added a drawing by Jean-Baptiste- Camille Corot ( Seated Camaldolese Monk , 1834, gift of Jill Newhouse), Martin Schongauer’s Death of a Virgin (ca. 1470s), and works by David Hockney and Martin Puryear, the latter two acquired through purchase funds. A work by French artist François- Pascal-Simon Gérard (1770-1837) enters The Frick Collection in New York (Fig. 12). The full-length portrait of Prince Camillo Borghese, the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, is the museum’s most important painting acquisition since 1991 and will be part of an exhibition opening in October 2018. With the passing of banker and art collector David Rockefeller in March, a promised gift of Camille Pissarro’s 1868 oil Landscape at Les Pâtis, Pontoise (Fig. 13) entered the collection of the National Gallery of Art , bringing to sixty-seven the number of works by the artist in the museum’s permanent collection.