ARC is pleased to announce that 100 two volume sets of the Bouguereau Biography and Catalogue Raisonné are being donated to ARC approved ateliers, reference libraries, and museums, so that art students and art lovers around the world will have access to this monumental book.
The book itself is the conclusion of a 30 year effort by a small determined team of 19th Century Art experts. The Catalog Raisonné which was jointly published by the Art Renewal Center® and the Antique Collectors Club, is a two-volume boxed set which illustrates the complete oeuvre of this great master, including information on all of William Bouguereau's 828 known paintings, as well as the entire 600 page biography written by Damien Bartoli, with Fred Ross, ARC Chairman and President of the Bouguereau Committee.
The huge scope of Bouguereau's work was immensely famous and popular in his own time and then was suppressed for nearly a century, resurfacing in 1980 when the Met hung 2 of his works. His popularity has gained momentum steadily ever since, and today he is widely recognized as the most popular and beloved of the Academic artists who preceded Impressionism. His diverse work spans monumental religious and mythical compositions, but most beloved are his deeply touching scenes exploring the depths of human emotion from early childhood through young adulthood. His poetic renderings of the psychology of youth are married to impeccable technical perfection, found in an unparalleled number of original and powerful masterpieces.
Below is a list of all book donations to date, we still have 22 left to go out and are currently compiling a list of Libraries and Museums that are still missing this monumental work:
- Academy of Realist Art, Boston MA
- Academy of Realist Art, Toronto
- Adrian Gottlieb Studio & Atelier
- Angel Academy of Art
- Ani Art Academy Waichulis
- Aristides Classical Atelier
- Atelier BACAA
- Atelier Canova
- Atelier Dualis
- Atelier Florence Academy of Art, Italy
- Atelier Florence Academy of Art, Sweden
- Atelier Indiana
- Atelier Madrid
- Atelier Maui
- Atelier School of Classical Realism/LA
- Barcelona Academy of Art
- Barcelona Atelier of Realist Art
- Beaux-Arts Atelier
- Bohemiarte School and Gallery
- Charles H. Cecil Studios
- Chiaroscuro Studio of Art
- Georgetown Atelier
- Gold Light Studios
- Golden Gate Atelier
- Grand Central Academy of Art
- Hein Academy of Art
- Ingbretson Studio of Drawing & Painting
- LAAFA: Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art
- Lafayette Atelier
- Laguna College of Art & Design, School of Fine Art
- Lausanne Collegiate School: The Michelangelo Project
- Lavender Hill Studios
- L'ecole Albert Defois
- London Atelier of Representational Art
- Long Island Academy of Fine Art
- Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
- Magrath Sculpture Atelier at Gage Academy of Art
- Miano Academy of Art
- New York Academy of Art
- Old Masters Atelier
- Ravenswood Atelier
- Russian Academy of Art
- Sadie Valeri Atelier
- Studio Incamminati
- Teaching Studios of Art, Brooklyn
- Teaching Studios of Art, Oyster Bay
- Texas Academy of Figurative Art
- The Academy of Fine Art
- The Art Students League of New York
- The Atelier: Studio Program of Fine Art
- The Center for Academic Study CAS
- The Harlem Studio of Art
- The Ryder Studio
- The School of Representational Art
- The Schuler School of Fine Arts
- Watts Atelier of the Arts, LLC
- The Swedish Academy of Realist Art - Atelier Stockholm
- Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Westminster Reference Library, Great Britain
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT
- Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- St. Gregory's University, James J Kelly Library, Shawnee, OK
- Seattle Art Museum Library, Seattle, WA
- Denver Art Museum Library, Denver, CO
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library, Richmond, VA
- College of Central Florida Library, Ocala, FL
- The British Library, London, UK
- The New York Historical Society, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New York, NY
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Kimbell Art Museum Library, Fort Worth, TX
- University of California, Arts Library, Santa Barbara, CA
- American Academy, Castle Pines, CO
- Renaissance High School, Meridian ID
- Western Alamance High School, Elon, NC
- Sayers Classical Academy, Louisville, KY
- Kingston High School, Kingston, WA
Other Major Libraries we have identified as having the Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonné
- Brown Fine Arts Library, Houston, TX
- Clark Museum Library, Williamstown, MA
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Ingalls Library and Museum Archives)
- Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York, NY
- Cornell Fine Arts Library, Ithaca, NY
- The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
- Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco has a copy for visitors to view in their book store.
- Frick Art Museum and Library, New York, NY
- H. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Jean Outland Chrysler Library, Norfolk, VA
- The Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, Cincinnati, OH
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
- Memorial Art Center, University of Rochester, NY
- National Art Library V&A, London, UK
- National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
- The New York Public Library, New York, NY
- Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Saint Louis Art Museum Library, Saint Louis, MO
- Spencer Art Reference Library, Kansas City, MO
- Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY
- Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
- UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (UCLA Arts Library)
- University of Michigan Fine Arts Library, Ann Arbor, MI
- The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library and The W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA