17. SDMA Selected Works, 2003:
“e Putnam sisters gave continuously until
1950, when their donations came to an
abrupt half. Exactly what transpired between
Poland and the sisters is the subject of much
speculation, but somehow he fell out of favor
with Amy. Letters between the two suggest
that Poland may have cautioned the Putnams
about some of the dealers they consulted and
that the implied criticism caused offense.”
18.
19.
20. Heimann to Poland 5 March 1949:
“I know very well about the ruffled relations between you and
our friends. I feel sure it is only a passing thing and I hope that
in due time everything will straighten out; all things in our life
pass; this will too. But to be friendly-frank with you, Mr Poland,
you made many mistakes; sometimes, in a personal talk with
you, if you so wish, I will prove it to you.”
21. Titian (?)
Portrait of a Man, ca. 1508-10
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Gift [of George Clowes] in
Memory of Booth Tarkington
23. Excerpted from GHA Clowes to Gerald O’Neill at Chadbourne,
Hunt, Jaeckel and Brown, New York, May 13, 1949:
“An art director who is a friend of mine but does not know about
my difficulties with Heimann was at our house yesterday and told
me that Heimann has wormed his way into the good graces of two
very old ladies who are very rich and who constitute the main
support of the San Diego museum and that he now lives in their
house, has been made by them a trustee of the museum, and is a
source of tremendous annoyance to the director of the museum,
as the old ladies insist that everything bought by the museum shall
be purchased from or through Heimann.”
24.
25.
26. Cataloguing the Collection:
From Reginald Poland and the Putnam Sisters
to Punchmarks and Provenance
Part Two: Punchmarks, Provenance, and all that…..
49. “It may be thought that
some apology is
required for devoting a
separate study to the
work of an artist
whose place in the
historical development
of his school is of such
comparative minor
importance as that of
Vincenzo Catena.”
52. Giorgione, Laura
1506 adj primo zugno
fo fatto questo de
mano de maistro Zorzi
da castel fr[anco] /
cholega de maistro
vizenzi chaena ad
instanzia de mis
Giac[o]mo
53. Catena,Virgin & Child with Saints
(formerly Pospisil collection,Venice)
Bellini & studio / Marco Bello?,
Virgin & Child with Saints
(Morgan Library, NY)
54. Catena,Virgin & Child with Saints
(Walters, Baltimore)
Bellini & studio,Virgin & Child with Saints
(Louvre)
55. Catena,Virgin & Child with Saints
(Dresden)
Bellini (& studio?),Virgin & Child with donor
(Harewood House)
56. Bellini and Studio / BelliniWorkshop
Clockwise from top left: Harewood House, Morgan Library, Metropolitan Museum, Louvre, Frankfurt
57. Above: Bellini & Studio,Virgin & Child with Saints (Frankfurt)
Upper right: Catena,Virgin & Child with Saints (Glasgow)
Lower right: Bellini studio,Virgin & Child with St John
(Indianapolis)
58. Upper left: Catena,Virgin & Child with St John (Trafalgar Galleries)
Lower left: Catena,Virgin & Child with Saints (Posnan)
59. Early Portraits by Catena:
Left (National Gallery, London)
Center (ex-Seligman, location unknown)
Right (Isola Bella)
61. 1506 adj primo zugno fo
fatto questo de mano de
maistro Zorzi da castel
fr[anco] / cholega de
maistro vizenzi chaena ad
instanzia de mis
Giac[o]mo
15_6
de mano de maistro Zorzi
da castel fr[anco]
