Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art

by Gabriel P. Weisberg

Breaking the Mold insightfully examines the formation and scope of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin collection at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. The Butkins were at the forefront of the art historical reevaluation of realist, naturalist, and academic paintings in the 1970s, championing 19th-century French paintings and drawings by artists as diverse as Fran?ois Bonvin, Th?odule Ribot, Antoine Vollon, L?on Lhermitte,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975398431
• ISBN13: 9780975398432
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 10.9"