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American Art Association

Founded in New York in 1883, this pioneering gallery and auction house helped bring American painting, decorative arts, and major estate sales to a wide public. Its catalogs and exhibitions capture a lively period when the U.S. art market was finding its confidence.

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Catalogue of valuable paintings and water colors mostly of the modern Dutch school, forming the private collection of A. Augustus Healy, Esq., Brooklyn : to be disposed of at unrestricted public sale ... February 15 [1907] at Mendelssohn Hall

Catalogue of valuable paintings and water colors mostly of the modern Dutch school, forming the private collection of A. Augustus Healy, Esq., Brooklyn : to be disposed of at unrestricted public sale ... February 15 [1907] at Mendelssohn Hall

by American Art Association

About the author

The American Art Association was not a single writer, but a New York gallery and auction house whose published catalogs are still used by historians, collectors, and curious readers. It was founded in 1883 by James F. Sutton, R. Austin Robertson, and Thomas E. Kirby, and it quickly became an important force in exhibiting and selling American art.

In its early years, the Association promoted American artists through exhibitions in its New York galleries while also organizing auctions that drew serious attention to painting, decorative arts, and private collections. Records from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art note that it helped introduce important collections to the public and played a visible role in the growing national art market.

For audiobook and library readers, works credited to the American Art Association are usually auction or exhibition catalogs rather than narrative books. Even so, they offer a vivid window into taste, collecting, and cultural life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially for anyone interested in American art history.