The collectors' cosmos : the Meakins-McClaran print collection /

The collectors' cosmos : the Meakins-McClaran print collection /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Meakins, Jonathan L., author, art collector.
Imprint:	Ottawa, Ontario : National Gallery of Canada, [2021] ©2021
Description:	216 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 30 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Meakins, Jonathan L -- Art collections -- Exhibitions. McClaran, Jacqueline Cox -- Art collections -- Exhibitions. Prints, Dutch -- 16th century -- Exhibitions. Prints, Dutch -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. Prints, Flemish -- 16th century -- Exhibitions. Prints, Flemish -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. Prints -- Private collections -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Exhibitions. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12671999

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Meakins-McClaran print collection
Other authors / contributors:	Dolphin, Erika, author. McClaran, Jacqueline Cox, art collector. Suda, Alexandra, writer of foreword. National Gallery of Canada, publisher, host institution.
ISBN:	9780888849601 0888849605
Notes:	Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Collectors' Cosmos: The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection organized by the National Gallery of Canada, and presented in Ottawa from 16 July to 14 November 2021. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	The Collectors' Cosmos: The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection provides a glimpse into the making of what is, undoubtedly, the foremost private collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish prints in Canada. While that is the strength of the collection, there is also a joyful touch of eclecticism reflecting the Renaissance interests of the collectors Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran. In this beautiful and fully illustrated catalogue, Dr. Meakins takes us through the collection's history, which began forty years ago in Paris following an afternoon in a room full of prints by Camille Pissarro at the Grand Palais. He reflects upon how a collection is never static; it ebbs and flows much like life. The other essay by Erika Dolphin, a personal account of her exploration of the collection, examines the flourishing of images of landscape in northern Europe and illustrates how art in the form of a humble print can lead us to reflect upon the myriad wonders of life.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
A passion for prints: reflections on building a collection / Jonathan L . Meakins
Everything between heaven and earth / Erika Dolphin
Catalogue
Prelude
Cosmologies
The world in landscape
Nature
Arcadia
The carnival of life
Coda
List of works
Abbreviated references
About the collectors
Acknowledgements
Selected bibliography.