By the turn of the century, Boston became home to a number of important collectors. Some lent or gave their collections to the Museum of Fine Arts; others (such as Isabella Stewart Gardner) opened their own museums. This talk will focus on one of Charles Gibson’s contemporaries, Denman Ross (1853-1935,) a prominent art collector, design theorist and educator, and trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, and discuss the different purposes these individuals envisioned for the objects they collected.
Dr. Frank is an architectural historian and author of Denman Ross and American Design Theory (University Press of New England, 2011.) She is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and also served as director of the American Studies Program at UML.
