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Article: Prints and drawings. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)(Old Masters in the Clark Collection, part 2)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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In October 1958, less than a week after his arrival as the first curator of prints and drawings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, William J. Collins, wrote:
It will be a year or more before we will know definitely just what is already in the Clark Collection. I would guess that there are some 5000 or so prints and drawings and until they are unpacked and catalogued there is no possibility of considering any additions to the collections.(1)
Like Peter Guille, the director of the institute from 1955 to 1966, Collins was a former art dealer, and as head of the print department at M. Knoedler and Company in New York City, he had sold many works to ...