International Directory of Corporate Art Collections: A Global Tour of Art in the Workplace

by Shirley Reiff Howarth (Editor)

Overview

The essential reference to art in the workplace and the corporate art world, the International Directory of Corporate Art Collections is still the only comprehensive guide to corporate art collecting around the world. In continuous publication since 1983, the revised and updated 2017 edition features nearly 800 companies in a "global tour" of art in the workplace. Several million works of art are displayed in businesses and corporations around the world -- nearly as many as in art museums! Corporations have been spending millions every year purchasing art, and the total value of all of the art that is on display in the workplace is worth several billion dollars. So the most important patron of the arts during the past 70 years has been ....... not private collectors, government art programs, and not even museums, but corporations. The International Directory of Corporate Art Collections describes which companies have art collections, have commissioned art, developed art education programs, and which corporations have organized or sponsored art exhibitions or loaned art works from their collections. In three sections, the International Directory of Corporate Art Collections highlights art in the workplace from 1) Europe and Asia Pacific, 2) North America, and 3) South America and Mexico. The latest edition is an essential reference for artists, art collectors, museum corporate affairs officers, curators and directors, architects, art galleries, art advisors and consultants, art historians, art appraiser, and lawyers. Information provided for each program includes contact information, description, size of collection, art programs and sponsorships, status of program, and bibliography.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157457006
Publisher:	International Art Alliance
Publication date:	05/07/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	828 KB

About the Author

Shirley Reiff Howarth grew up in Washington, DC and Paris, France, where her father served as a career army officer after World War II. She has been researching the field of art in corporations for nearly 35 years as the creator and editor of the International Directory of Corporate Art Collections published bi-annually since 1983.
With an MA degree in Art History from Penn State University, she has documented the phenomenon of art collections in business and the workplace, and how this trend has changed and evolved during the past decades.
As a former museum director and curator for 15 years, in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida, she also has first-hand insight into the unique world of museums and their mission of education. She continues to curate exhibitions that have traveled in the United States, Europe and Japan, that have included Dufy by Design: the Fabric Designs of Raoul Dufy; C. Paul Jennewein, Sculptor; Marcel Breuer: Concrete and the Cross; A Theatre of Color: Costume Designs for the Black Theatre; and two current exhibitions: What Color is Your Dream with works from the Landfill Art Collection, and an upcoming exhibition in Japan during the 2020 Olympics about corporate art collections around the world. She was adjunct professor at St Leo College for seven years, teaching courses in the History of Photography, Arts Management and Art History.
Her early life gave her a deep abiding love for France, and she now lives part time in Lyon, France as well as North America where she continues to research, write, and organize exhibitions.