"The essays in this publication were originally presented at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as ... the Museum's fourth annual interdisciplinary symposium, which was held in 1995 ..."--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Art matronage in post-Victorian America / Wanda Corn -- Women artists and the problems of metropolitan culture : New York and Chicago, 1890-1910 / Christine Stansell -- Women's philanthropy for women's art, past and present / Karen J. Blair -- Never complain, never explain : Elsie de Wolfe and the art of social change / David Park Curry -- Private museums, public leadership : Isabella Stewart Gardner and the art of cultural authority / Anne Higonnet -- The special connection : Albert Barnes and Lincoln University / David Levering Lewis -- Midwestern medievalism : three Chicago collectors / Neil Harris
