Curatorial Assistance provides collection management services for both private and institutional art clients.
Keeping your collection organized, documented and preserved enhances its value and accessibility for future generations. Today the most cost-effective solution to collection management comes through digital technology. Creating a digitized archive of your art collection serves as a low-cost and highly flexible collection management solution. From applying standard database packages to custom-designed museum management networks, Curatorial Assistance can help you select the solution most appropriate for your needs and provide the technical means to build and manage an effective system.
selected collections
(Visit the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection website) |
E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection
Curatorial Assistance manages the estate collection of Emil Otto Hoppé (1878 -1972), one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era whose artistic success rivaled those of his peers, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Edward Steichen (1879-1973) and Walker Evans (1903-1975).
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Slippers worn in "Spectre de la Rose" 1911 Photograph copyright Henry Leutwyler |
Vaslav Nijinsky Estate Collection Curatorial Assistance handles the management and licensing of this rare collection. Highlights include several of Nijinsky’s original vintage costumes and accessories from the Ballets Russes, Nijinsky's personal artifacts, photographs, documents, and drawings, depictions of Nijinsky in various media, and paintings, photographs, drawings, lithographs, letters, documents, and posters given to Nijinsky by other artists and his peers. Another important aspect of this collection is a rare and unusually comprehensive record of Nijinsky and his fellow dancers from the 1911 to 1921 London Ballets Russes seasons with photographs by the Edwardian photo-modernist Emil Otto Hoppé. These intimate largely unpublished portraits represent a body of work that depicts Diaghilev's Ballets Russes dancers in their prime. All items in the collection are touchstones to both the man and his legend. They also represent some of the most important artifacts telling the story of the revolution in dance, music, choreography, costume and stage design created by the Ballets Russes—the earliest moment in modern art history where innovation across these separate mediums was combined to create a sublime artistic experience. |
Graham Nash Daguerreotype Collection |
Graham Nash Daguerreotype Collection
One of the most important photography collectors of our time, singer-songwriter Graham Nash, has spent the last decade collecting thousands of daguerreotypes. These unique and precious photographic works date from the middle of the nineteenth century and with mirror-like reflection seem to give us windows into the lives of others though this intimate process that makes unique objects. Curatorial Assistance has managed the cataloguing, proper housing, repro-photography and organization of these treasures in preparation for their forthcoming curation for public exhibition.
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