What’s Mine is Yours. Private collectors and public patronage in the United States. Essays in honor of Inge Reist

Since its foundation in 2007 the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, under the leadership of Inge Reist, has set the agenda for historians of American collecting, with a particular emphasis on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collectors and their agents. These men and women scoured Europe for treasures, many of which were later donated or bequeathed to American public institutions. Between 2011 and 2017, Reist edited or co-edited six volumes of essays organized around types of collector or schools of art, the product of a programme of symposia and fellowships rivalled only by those of the Getty Research Institute. What’s Mine is Yours is a fitting tribute to this impressive record of achievement, as well as to Reist’s service to the Frick, which began with her appointment as assistant curator in 1980. The volume’s contributors, who include university academics (in history as well as art history), curators and independent scholars, reflect Reist’s gift for forming networks that transcend disciplinary boundaries and institutional cultures.

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