GENERAL DESCRIPTION
As a collector Calvin Holmes' interests ranged widely, but, if quality and quantity are indications, his greatest affection was for the graphic arts. Within the field of printmaking he collected older examples, both European and Japanese, and the work of contemproary artists as well. With characteristic generosity Holmes made bequests of these prints in ways he thought would enable them best to reach the widest audience. His Japanese prints and certain series of 18th century English and French topical engravings were left to the Dallas Public Library, his contemporary prints to Southern Methodist Univeristy, and his Old Master prints to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
This last group forms the present exhibition, which is presented as a gesture of gratitutde in honor of Holmes' lifellong support of the museum by his active interest and of his magnanimity in making this key part of his collection permanently available to the people of Dallas by its bequest to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
During his lifetime Holmes was a familiar figure in Dallas Art circles, especially within the activities of two organizations, the Craft Guild of Dallas and the Dallas Print and Drawing Society. It is indicative of the kind of unassuming constancy he represented that Holmes served as treasurer of both organizations for extensive periods. The same constancy of purpose inspired his collecting. No better evidence can be had thatn the present group of Old Master prints, most of them by Dürer and Rembrandt. These etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, acquired over a period of years and with relatively limited expenditure, form together a representative collection spanning the work of both artists, perhaps the two greatest practitioners of the graphic arts, which could not be duplicated today without vastle greater expense and effort of search.
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Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition text from Old Master Prints, Bequest of Calvin J. Holmes, June 16-September 3, 1973.
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I found photocopies of this essay in many of the Durer object files and decided it was interesting enough to act as an associated CC for all 37 works on paper he donated to the DMFA between 1961 and 1971.
I believe this essay may have been typed for the following exhibition, but have not verified this through the location histories or exhibition materials.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Old Master Prints, Bequest of Calvin J. Holmes, June 16-September 3, 1973
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General Description
As a collector Calvin Holmes' interests ranged widely, but, if quality and quantity are indications, his greatest affection was for the graphic arts. Within the field of printmaking he collected older examples, both European and Japanese, and the work of contemproary artists as well. With characteristic generosity Holmes made bequests of these prints in ways he thought would enable them best to reach the widest audience. His Japanese prints and certain series of 18th century English and French topical engravings were left to the Dallas Public Library, his contemporary prints to Southern Methodist Univeristy, and his Old Master prints to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
This last group forms the present exhibition, which is presented as a gesture of gratitutde in honor of Holmes' lifellong support of the museum by his active interest and of his magnanimity in making this key part of his collection permanently available to the people of Dallas by its bequest to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
During his lifetime Holmes was a familiar figure in Dallas Art circles, especially within the activities of two organizations, the Craft Guild of Dallas and the Dallas Print and Drawing Society. It is indicative of the kind of unassuming constancy he represented that Holmes served as treasurer of both organizations for extensive periods. The same constancy of purpose inspired his collecting. No better evidence can be had thatn the present group of Old Master prints, most of them by Dürer and Rembrandt. These etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, acquired over a period of years and with relatively limited expenditure, form together a representative collection spanning the work of both artists, perhaps the two greatest practitioners of the graphic arts, which could not be duplicated today without vastle greater expense and effort of search.
Adapted from
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition text from Old Master Prints, Bequest of Calvin J. Holmes, June 16-September 3, 1973.
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I found photocopies of this essay in many of the Durer object files and decided it was interesting enough to act as an associated CC for all 37 works on paper he donated to the DMFA between 1961 and 1971.
I believe this essay may have been typed for the following exhibition, but have not verified this through the location histories or exhibition materials.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Old Master Prints, Bequest of Calvin J. Holmes, June 16-September 3, 1973
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