Abstract

On 4 June 1925, Harold Woodbury Parsons was appointed European Representative to the Cleveland Museum of Art; for the remainder of the decade he distinguished himself in scouting for and acquiring masterworks of European art for the essentially brand new institution. His long-time contacts in Rome, to begin with, led him to a famous Byzantine ivory (formerly in the collection of Count Grigorij Stroganoff). This he bought for the museum in November 1925, winning enthusiastic praise from Paul J. Sachs, a key figure in American museological circles. Similarly, he acquired soon afterwards El Greco’s Holy Family with St Mary Magdalen, despite intense competition. Parsons was ideally placed in the sale of Filippino Lippi’s Holy Family tondo as a sometime agent for the antiquities collector Edward Perry Warren (recently deceased). Parsons’s correspondence and unpublished notices in the Duveen Brothers records document the off-again, on-again dealing for what is now one of the pre-eminent Italian Renaissance paintings in America, acquired in August 1929.

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“一个不知疲倦的中介”。Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882–1967) 和克利夫兰艺术博物馆欧洲收藏的形成：第 2 部分

摘要

Ø ñ1925年6月4日，哈罗德·伍德伯里帕森斯被任命为欧洲代表克利夫兰艺术博物馆; 为十年剩下他区别了自己在侦察和获取欧洲艺术杰作的基本上是全新的机构。他在罗马的长期接触中，首先，导致他著名的拜占庭象牙（原伯爵Grigorij酱牛肉的集合）。这一点，他在1925年11月买了博物馆，保罗J.萨克斯，美国博物馆学界的关键人物赢得热烈的赞誉。同样，他不久之后收购埃尔·格列柯的神圣家族圣玛丽抹大拉，尽管激烈的竞争。帕森斯是占尽地利，在售菲利皮诺·利皮的的神圣家族通多作为某个代理为文物集电极爱德华佩里沃伦（最近已故）。帕森斯的书信，并在杜维恩兄弟记录未发表的声明文件截止再次，上重新处理，现在什么是美国杰出的意大利文艺复兴时期的绘画，在1929年8月收购的一个。