Art

This section lists newly added articles focused on art— and those in our archive.


Damien Hirst. For the love of God (2007) in publications, exhibitions

Meet Damien Hirst’s long-lost "art grandmother", performing sensational diamond publicity back in 1940, before her celebrity "It Girl" media coverage implosion. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of...

Tracey Emin. My bed (1998) in publications, exhibitions

Meet Tracey’s long-lost "art grandmother". She publicly initiated shocking disclosure back in 1940, reported nationally in waves of media reports. (She later turned to Art.) Plus a list of...

Emily Hall Tremaine Papers at the Smithsonian, reproduction permissions...

To assist researchers, below is a quick scan through the documentation that specifies which artworks are mentioned in each folder. As a reminder, this documentation provides leads, and the actual...

Tremaine Collection artworks and designs in publications (compilation;...

With her extensive communications experience from the 1930s, Emily Hall Tremaine marshalled those skills for the benefit of the artworks and designs that she worked with, 1945-87. This compilation...

The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters exhibition catalogue (list of...

The following is a photo index of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (26 February - 29 April 1984). The following photos of artworks and designs are...

Tremaine Collection artworks in Tremaine auction catalogues (1988, 1991)

The following are the artworks (with photos) included in the catalogues for the 1988 and 1991 Tremaine Collection auctions. (While famous auctions, only a small portion of the collection was...

Louise Lawler. The Tremaine pictures. List of photoworks (2007)

The photoworks include views of several iconic artworks. The descriptions below highlight which works they are, with links to information sources. Louise Lawler’s The Tremaine pictures show at BFAS...

Theo van Doesburg’s Space-time construction #3 and Composition XX in the...

The influential Space-time... in the original PtA is also a key element in a travelling exhibition focused on architect Harry Seidler. Next scheduled venue: Chicago, August-September 2018. Last...

Piet Mondrian. Victory boogie woogie & Painting toward architecture (2018)

Piet Mondrian. Victory Boogie Woogie, (1942-44). Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands. > Make sure to see the overview page for Mondrian’s Victory boogie woogie. A third work with...

Rethinking Painting toward architecture (1947-52) (2017)

Emily Hall Tremaine and her husband, Burton, the CEO and owner of the Miller Company in Meriden, Connecticut, are mostly remembered as collectors of cutting-edge 1960s art and for the prices...

The Painting toward architecture exhibition (1947-52) by the Miller Company...

Artworks exhibited in Painting toward architecture (1947-52) It is important to note that over the 28(+) venues of Painting toward architecture, the artworks— and presentation of photos of...

More Tremaine Collection artworks and designs in exhibitions (compilation;...

Click to see the "master list" of Tremaine Collection artworks and designs in exhibitions (compilation; 1945-present). December 1985 - January 1986. Twentieth century European masters at...

The Painting toward architecture exhibition (1947-52), Miller Company...

"The part that the Medicis played in Renaissance Italy can be best approximated today by such great corporations as those that I have named and the fact that the Miller [Company] recently won an...

Tremaine Collection artworks and designs in exhibitions (compilation;...

Starting with their Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art, Burton Tremaine and Emily Hall Tremaine, known for her great eye, built a collection of works which were featured in hundreds of...

The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters (1984) (list of artworks in...

The following is a spotlighted list of works on view in the exhibition The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (26 February - 29 April 1984). After each...

Philip Johnson lecture on Chick Austin and Burton & Emily Hall Tremaine -...

In the following lecture given at the unveiling of the exhibition The Tremaine Collection - 20th century masters: The spirit of modernism (1984), Philip Johnson talks about the Tremaine’s...

A New York collector selects... at San Francisco Museum of Art (1965)

Exhibition checklist of work selected by the legendary art collector Emily Hall Tremaine for the exhibition. The following exhibition checklist is for artworks selected by Emily Hall Tremaine, the...