Fine Art Collections, further reading

FURTHER READING

(All published by the Boston Athenæum unless otherwise noted.)

Josiah Quincy. The History of the Boston Athenæum, with Biographical Notes of its Deceased Founders. Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, 1851.

John T. Kirkland. The Athenæum Centenary: The Influence and History of the Boston Athenæum from 1807 to 1907. Boston, 1907.

Mabel Munson Swan. The Athenæum Gallery 1827-1873. The Boston Athenæum as an Early Patron of Art. Boston, 1940.

Walter Muir Whitehill, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.

Jane S. Knowles. Change and Continuity: A Pictorial History of the Boston Athenæum. Boston, 1976.

Pamela Hoyle. The Development of Photography in Boston, 1840-1875. Boston, 1979.

Robert F. Perkins, Jr. and William J. Gavin III, The Boston Athenæum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874. Boston, 1980.

Pamela Hoyle, Jonathan P. Harding, and Rosemany Booth. A Climate for Art: The History of the Boston Athenæum Gallery, 1827-1873. Boston, 1980.

Pamela Hoyle. The Boston Ambience: An Exhibition of Nineteenth Century Photographs. Boston, 1981.

Sally Pierce and Temple D. Smith. Citizens in Conflict: Prints and Photographs of the American Civil War. Boston, 1981.

Jonathan P. Harding. The Boston Athenæum Collection: Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpture. Boston, 1984.

Sally Pierce. Whipple and Black: Commercial Photographers in Boston. Boston, 1987.

Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback. Boston Lithography, 1825-1880: The Boston Athenæum Collection. Boston, 1991.

Sally Pierce, Catharina Slautterback, and Georgia Brady Barnhill. Early American Lithography: Images to 1830. Boston, 1997.

Catharina Slautterback. Designing the Boston Athenæum: 10 ½ at 150. Boston, 1999.

Michael Wentworth. Look Again: Essays on the Boston Athenæum’s Art Collections. Boston, 2004.

Stanley Ellis Cushing and David B. Dearinger. Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenæum. Boston, 2007.

Catharina Slautterback. “Always Delightfully Cool”: Summer Vacations in Northern New England, 1825-1900. Boston, 2008.

Note: To date, no comprehensive catalogue of the Athenæum’s art collection has been published. However, many objects from its collection of prints and photographs are catalogued on the Athenæum’s general collection catalogue, Athena. Many, but not all, of the institution’s paintings and sculpture are included in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Inventory of American Paintings and Sculpture” at www.siris.si.edu/.