List of artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art guide

Painting used for the cover of the 1983 paperback edition
Painting used for the 1983 hardcover edition, and also for the paperback edition of the 1987 "fourth printing" of the 1983 edition
Painting used for the cover of the 2000 third impression of the second edition from 1994

The List of artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art guide is a list of the artists indexed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum guide. The guide, with a forward by the museum director Philippe de Montebello, was first produced in 1983 and the edition from 1994 has been digitized.

Background

Montebello claimed that the idea for the guide "to present a profile of the Met in terms of its strengths and weaknesses", came from the museum's senior editor Kathleen Howard in 1978 and took 5 years to make, based on a pocket-sized format inspired by the guidebook from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg.[1] Montebello drew up a list of 1,200 highlights and these were reconciled with the lists of the curators of the various collection to create 800 objects to be photographed and included.[1] The museum's collections are spread throughout several wings in the Fifth Avenue location in addition to The Cloisters museum and gardens in northern Manhattan. The entire collection houses over two million objects, tens of thousands of which are on view at any given time. The museum guide has been designed to highlight the various major sections based on the importance of their holdings in the "over-all hierarchy of the arts and public response".[1] This explains why European paintings are represented by 87 pages, as opposed to 23 for Egyptian works of art.[1]

In the following list from the index, the artist's name is followed by the location of one of their works and its page number in the guide. For artists with more than one work in the guide, or for works by artists not listed here, see the online guidebook, the Metropolitan Museum of Art website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons category. Of artists listed, there are only 7 women, including Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Georgia O'Keeffe, Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, and Susan Rothenberg.[2] For the complete list of artists and their artworks in the collection, see the website.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Best of the Metropolitan in new art guidebook article February 4th 1984 in the New York Times
  2. ↑ Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Quant were listed in the 1983 edition but were eventually dropped from the catalog over the course of a decade
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