Additional Readings and Information
General
Auchincloss, Louis. The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age. 1st ed. New York: Collier Books, 1990.
Bailey, Colin B. Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and Its Collections. New York: Frick Collection in association with Scala, 2006.
Beard, Patricia. After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals,and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Blanchard, Mary Warner. Oscar Wilde’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1998.
Brignano, Mary. A Museum of the Gilded Age: Frick Art & Historical Center. 2nd ed. Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 2009.
Brown, Joshua. Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Burns, Sarah. American Art to 1900: A Documentary History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
. Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.
Cheek, Richard. Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age. Little Compton, R.I: Foremost Publishers, 1982.
Craven, Wayne. Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2009.
Doell, M. Christine Klim. Gardens of the Gilded Age: Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Homegrounds of New York State. 1st ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Dwight, Eleanor. The Gilded Age: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries. New York, NY: Universe, 1995.
Glubok, Shirley. The Art of America in the Gilded Age. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Gregory, Alexis. Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Age. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1993.
Griffin, Randall C. Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz: The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
Kaplan, Justin. When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age. New York: Viking, 2006.
King, Greg. A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Kotynek, Roy. American Cultural Rebels: Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s Through the 1960s. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2008.
Lewis, Arnold, James Turner, and Steven McQuillin. The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age: All 203 Photographs from “Artistic Houses”: With New Text. New York: Dover, 1987.
New York State Historical Association. The Empire State: A History of New York. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Patterson, Jerry E. The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor’s New York in the Gilded Age. New York: Rizzoli, 2000.
Patterson, Jerry E, and Museum of the City of New York. The City of New York: A History Illustrated from the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1978.
Platt, Frederick. America’s Gilded Age: Its Architecture and Decoration. South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, 1976.
Saltzman, Cynthia. Old Masters, New World : America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I. New York: Viking, 2008.
Schwain, Kristin. Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. 1st ed. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000.
Stern, Robert A. M. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. New York, N.Y: Monacelli Press, 1999.
Weisberg, Gabriel P, Frick Art & Historical Center, and Frick Art Museum (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Collecting in the Gilded Age: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890-1910. Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 1997.
Galleries, Clubs and Associations
Brummer Gallery
"Brummer Gallery (New York, N.Y.).” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011. <http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7117>.
“Brummer, Ernest.” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011. <http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=6456>.
“Brummer, Joseph.” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011. <http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7119>.
Century Association
Century Association (New York, N.Y.). American Art at the Century. New York: Century Association, 1977.
Century Association (New York, N.Y.). The Century at 150: Excerpts from the Archives. New York: The Century Association, 1997.
Century Association (New York, N.Y.). Works of Art, Silver and Furniture, Belonging to the Century Association. New York: The Century Association, 1943.
Cantor, Jay E., and Morrison H. Heckscher. Every Patron a Pericles: The Century Association and the Encouragement of American Art. New York: Century Association, 1997.
Frosch, William A, and Century Association (New York, N.Y.). Our Original Amaterus. New York: The Century Association, 2009.
Hyatt Mayor, A. and Mark Davis. American Art at the Century. New York: Century Association, 1977.
Colony Club
Cox, Anne. The history of the Colony Club. New York: Privately printed for the Club, 1984.
Cottier Gallery
“Cottier & Co. (New York, N.Y.).” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011. <http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7344>.
“Cottier, Daniel, 1838-1891.” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011. <http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7303>.
Hobler, Margaret H. In Search of Daniel Cottier, Artistic Entrepreneur, 1838-1891. Thesis (M.A.), Hunter College, City University of New York, 1987.
Kinchin, Juliet, Hilary Macartney, and David Robertson. Cottier's in context: Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, 2011.
Grand Central Art Galleries
“Grand Central Art Galleries.” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011. <http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7481>.
Lotus Club
Becker, Jack. Encouraging American Art: The Lotos Club, 1870-1920. New York, N.Y: The Lotos Club, 1997.
Elderkin, John. A Brief History of the Lotos Club. New York: Press of Macgowan & Slipper, 1895.
Moskin, J R, and Nancy A. Johnson. The Members of the Lotos Club, 1870 Through 2007. New York, NY: Lotos Club, 2008.
“History and Objectives.” lotosclub.org. The Lotos Club. 13 September 2011. <http://www.lotosclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=225180&ssid=72896&vnf=1>.
Montross Gallery
“Montross Gallery.” research.frick.org/directoryweb. Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America. 13 September 2011.<http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=6581>.
National Association of Portrait Painters
“National Association of Portrait Painters.” The American Art Directory. 10th ed. 1913.
New York Watercolor Club
“The Beginning.” americanwatercolorsociety.com. The American Watercolor Society. 13 September 2011 <http://www.americanwatercolorsociety.com/a_the_beginning.php>.
Fabri, Ralph. History of the American Watercolor Society; the First Hundred Years. 1st ed. New York: American Watercolor Society, 1969. Print.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America; an Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society [shown at] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 8, 1966 to January 29, 1967. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
Salmagundi Club
“History of the Salmagundi Club.” salmagundi.org. Salmagundi Club. 13 September 2011. <http://salmagundi.org/history.htm>.
Katlan, Alexander W. Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibitions Records 1889 to 1939: A Guide to the Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and the Annual Exhibition and Auction Sale of Pictures. Flushing, N.Y.: Alexander W. Katlan & Salmagundi Club NYC, 2008.
Salmagundi Club. Centennial Roster of the Salmagundi Club Since Its Inception in 1871 to 1972. New York: The Club, 1972. Print.
Shelton, William Henry. The Salmagundi Club, Being a History of Its Beginning as a Sketch Class, Its Public Service as the Black and White Society, and Its Career as a Club from 1871-1918, with Illustrations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
Union League Club
“About the Union League Club.” unionleagueclub.org. Union League Club. 13 September 2011. <http://www.unionleagueclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=292355&ssid=172851&vnf=1>.
Irwin, Will. A History of the Union League Club of New York City. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1952.
Union League Club (New York, N.Y.). Guide to the Art Collection of the Union League Club of New York. S.l.: s.n., 2006.