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An exceptional print collection. (Current and Coming).(New York Public Library displays Samuel P. Avery print collection)(Brief Article)
When Samuel P. Avery, an artist, art dealer, collector, and philanthropist, presented his collection of nearly eighteen thousand prints to the New York Public library in 1900, he established in a single stroke the first public print collection in this country Selections from this gift are the subject of an exhibition on view at the New York Public Library in New York City from April 5 to June 29. The exhibition is entitled Souvenirs of a Veteran Collector: The Samuel Putnam Avery Collection at the New York Public Library, and its focus is the relationship that Avery enjoyed with contemporary artists.
In the early 1840s Avery executed woodcuts for children's books and periodicals such as Harper's and Appleton's. In 1864 be turned over his engraving business to his apprentice in order to devote himself to collecting and dealing in art He was selected to be head of the display at the American pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867 (at which he gave Whistler pride of place), and before he departed he sold his inventory so he could purchase art both for himself and for his clients.
With the financial backing of William T. Walters (the founder of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore), Avery returned to Paris frequently and there befriended the expatriate American George A. Lucas (whose enormous print collection ended up at the Baltimore Museum of Art). Lucas had moved to Paris in 1857 and there he became a dealer and adviser to bath Walters and Avery.
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