2011 Annual Report - National Gallery of Art

gave the Gallery Aaron Siskind’s Martha’s
Vineyard 12, 1953, and a study for Robert
Heinecken’s portfolio Are You Rea, c. 1969.
Norman and Carolyn K. Carr donated
Weegee’s Bowery Entertainers, 1944, and Drunk
Tank, 1950. Katy Grannan’s Anonymous, San
Francisco, 2009, was purchased with funds
donated by Betsy Karel, and Idris Khan’s The
Creation, was purchased with funds from the
Collectors Committee.
RARE BOOKS AND IMAGES Support
from endowments and generous donations
enabled the Library to acquire seventy-four
titles for the rare book collection.
The David K. E. Bruce Fund continued to
provide essential support for developing
important aspects of the collection’s subject
concentrations. Sixty titles dating from the
early sixteenth century to the early twentieth
century were added, including three issues of
the Dada journal 391 published between 1917
and 1924.
Seven titles were acquired thanks to the J.
Paul Getty Fund in honor of Franklin D.
Murphy, including Emblemes, ou Deuises chrestiennes
by Georgette de Montenay (La Rochelle,
1620), the first French emblem book to include
engravings, among the first written by a
woman, and one of the first published for a
Protestant readership. The hundred engravings
are from the original edition of 1567, of which
only one copy, now in the Royal Library in
Copenhagen, survives.
The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for
Architectural Books enabled the purchase of
six titles, including Architects Remembrancer,
or, Surveyors Pocket Companion (c. 1740), a twovolume
manuscript prepared by joiner and
surveyor James Horne, as well as Metropolitana
di Milano (Milan, 1824), presented to Archduke
Rainer of Austria with binding by Luigi
Lodigiano and thirty-six engravings.
The Philip Conisbee Fund supported
the purchase of Scènes de la vie privée et publique
des animaux by P. J. Stahl (Paris, 1842),
featuring nearly 200 wood engravings by
J. J. Grandville.
The image collections were enriched with
many notable additions. Among the albums,
the most significant purchases were a folio of
albumen photographs by Marville from 1860;
two albums of photographs by Juan Laurent
from the 1870s; Georg Humann’s Die Kunstwerke
der Münsterkirche zu Essen (Düsseldorf, 1904);
Musée d’Anvers by Théophile Thoré (Brussels,
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1862); and S. Russell Forbes’ Ancient Sculptures:
The Masterpieces of Greek Art in the Museums of
Rome (Rome, 1890?). The department also purchased
a reproductive print by Cornelis van
Dalen of Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen’s Portrait of
Anna Maria van Schurman.
Among the individual photographs are a
group of anonymous mid-nineteenth-century
salted paper prints of English architecture; the
Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City by
Lorenzo Becerril, 1885; a sculpture by Picasso
photographed by Brassai, c. 1930; a large group
of photographs and negatives of artists’ portraits
by Lida Moser taken between 1950 and 1980;
an anonymous platinum portrait of Gertrude
Kasebier, c. 1900; a pair of cased daguerreotypes
of the Crystal Palace exhibition in
Sydenham, 1854; a stereo daguerreotype of the
1855 Paris Exposition Universelle; and
Balthazar Korab’s photograph of Georgia
O’Keeffe in her studio, 1965.
� Juan Laurent, Interior
of the Great Mosque or
Cathedral at Córdoba,
Department of Image
Collections, National
Gallery of Art Library