Luman Reed

Luman Reed (1787–1836) was a successful

Asher B. Durand.^[1]

Biography

Reed was born on a farm in Green River (in the area that is now

European and American art in the United States, which he displayed in a specially designed two-room gallery in his house on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan.^[2]

Philanthropy

Making his mark as a patron of both established and aspiring contemporary American artists, Reed attempted to nurture the creation of a national artistic culture as sophisticated and accomplished as that of Europe. His interest in

genre paintings depicting scenes from everyday life.^[3]

In 1844, his substantial collection was purchased by a group of his associates in New York with the intention to form a public art collection, later the New York Gallery of Fine Arts. The collection was later donated to the New-York Historical Society in 1858. It is one of the most important early 19th-century collections of American art that survives intact.^[3]

References

^ Foshay, E.M., Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: A Pioneer Collection of American Art (New York 1990).
^ Vedder, L.A., "Nineteenth-century American paintings," Magazine Antiques (Jan, 2005).[1]
^ ^a ^b Vedder, L.A., supra.

[1] Foshay, E.M., Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: A Pioneer Collection of American Art (New York 1990).

[2] Vedder, L.A., "Nineteenth-century American paintings," Magazine Antiques (Jan, 2005).[1]

[Vedder,_L.A.,_supra-3] Vedder, L.A., supra.

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