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	Courtauld Institute of Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art.
		It was founded in 1932 by the industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld, the diplomat and collector Lord Lee of Fareham, and the art historian Sir Robert Witt.
		The art collection at the Institute was begun by its founder, Samuel Courtauld, who presented an extensive collection of mainly French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in 1932, which was enhanced by further gifts in the 1930s and a bequest in 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art (634 words)

	Samuel Courtauld (art collector) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He founded the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 1932 and, after a series of gifts during the 1930s, bequeathed his collection to it upon his death.
		Samuel Courtauld took charge of the firm from 1908 as general manager and as chairman from 1921 to 1946.
		Courtauld was one of the first collectors to display interest in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Courtauld_(art_collector) (314 words)

	Sue Bond PR - Press Release - Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
		The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery has one of the most important and best-loved collections of European paintings and drawings in Britain, ranging from the Renaissance to the 20th century and including an outstanding collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
		Courtauld also laid the foundations of the national collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art through a £50,000 acquisition fund for the Tate and National Gallery.
		The founding of the Courtauld Institute of Art was largely due to Lord Lee who formed the idea that Britain should have a specialist institution for the teaching of art history and bequeathed it his collection in support of this goal.
	www.suebond.co.uk /events/release.php?eventid=15 (1219 words)

	Hermitage Rooms
		The Courtauld Institute of Art is delighted to announce an important alliance with The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
		The Courtauld Institute of Art, founded in 1932, is a major centre in Britain for the study of the history of Western art and has an outstanding international reputation.
		The Courtauld was the only art history faculty in the United Kingdom to be awarded the highest grade, 5*, in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise carried out by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and received a rating of 23/24 in the 1997 Quality Assessment carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency.
	www.hermitagerooms.com /about_us/press_release_may2003.html (895 words)

	Quality Assessment Report for Courtauld Institute of Art
		The Courtauld Institute of Art was founded as a Senate Institute of the University of London in 1931 to 'provide instruction in the history of art and to promote research, especially by training and assisting students'.
		Enables students to study the range of western art and architecture from different times and places and to make choices which allow a varied and progressive knowledge and understanding of its history, encountering a variety of learning experiences with teachers who are actively engaged in research.
		The Courtauld Institute of Art aims to provide an education at undergraduate and postgraduate level that combines specialist art historical skills with transferable skills which can be used in a career in the arts, and indeed other employment.
	www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/subjectLevel/q47_98_textonly.htm (4531 words)

	Education UK - The best you can be
		The Courtauld Institute of Art founded in 1932, is the major centre for the study of the history of Western art, with a worldwide reputation for scholarship.
		The aim of all programmes of study at the Courtauld is to develop visual awareness and expertise, and to give a professional training in the study of Western art, allowing students to specialise in particular fields and periods.
		Courtauld students are entitled to make use of all the facilities of the University of London Union in Malet Street.
	www.educationuk.org /pls/hot_bc/bc_profile.page_pls_profile_details?z=5608 (558 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Review: Looking With/Out, Courtauld Institute of Art
		This biannual exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art was originally the brainchild of Joshua Compston, Courtauld student and founder of Factual Nonsense.
		Wall did doctoral research at the Courtauld 30 years ago, and his contribution here is a computer- adjusted photo of a gigantic naked woman standing on a landing in the middle of a library.
		Without art's ambiguities, slippery meanings, and the constant work of re-reading, the job of the institution would be done.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/feature/0,1169,728552,00.html (1243 words)

	The National Arts Club - About the Artists
		The Courtauld Institute of Art, founded in 1932, is the major centre in Britain for the study of the history of Western art, and is one of the premier art historical institutes in the world.
		The Institute is a college of the federal University of London and has a teaching staff of 30 who cover the full range of arts and architecture of the Western world from classical antiquity to the present day, as well as the conservation of easel and wall paintings.
		This year the Institute’s Research Forum was formed, funded in part by a generous grant from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
	www.nationalartsclub.org /pb_SE_artists_courtauld.htm (501 words)

	Courtauld Director Given Lawrence Medal
		In January 2003, Cuno was appointed professor and director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, an independent college of the University of London.
		Prior to assuming the Courtauld post, Cuno was the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums and professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard from 1991 to 2002.
		The Courtauld Institute of Art is a major center in Britain for the study of the history of Western art.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /newscenter/lawrencemedal.html (408 words)

	Harvard University Art Museums - Press Releases, 2002
		Founded in 1932 and housed since 1989 in Somerset House, one of the grandest and most famous neo-classical buildings in London, the Courtauld Institute of Art is one of the world’s leading centers for teaching and research in the history and conservation of Western art.
		The Courtauld has a teaching staff of 30 who, between them, cover the arts and architecture of the Western world from antiquity to the present day, as well as the conservation of easel and wall paintings.
		The Harvard University Art Museums are one of the world’s leading arts institutions, with the Arthur M. Sackler, Busch-Reisinger, and Fogg art museums, the Straus Center for Conservation, and the U.S. headquarters for the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, an excavation project in western Turkey.
	www.artmuseums.harvard.edu /press/released2002/cumo.html (983 words)

	Art Institute of Chicago director to speak Feb. 10 at Snite - University of Notre Dame : News & Information
		Formerly the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Cuno assumed directorship of the Chicago institute in September.
		He previously served as director of the art museums at Harvard University and Dartmouth College, as well as the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA, and taught art history courses at all three institutions.
		The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is the oldest and largest art museum and art school in the Midwest.
	newsinfo.nd.edu /content.cfm?topicid=9362 (327 words)

	Somerset House - the Courtauld Institute of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery has one of the most important collections in Britain, including world-famous Old Master and Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, together with sculpture and applied arts, and a world-class prints and drawings collection which includes works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne and Turner.
		The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery’s extraordinarily rich assembly of works of art was largely formed through a series of major gifts and bequests from some of the leading collectors of the 19th and 20th centuries.
		For more information about the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery call 020 7848 2526 or fax 020 7848 2589.
	www.somerset-house.org.uk /attractions/courtauld (255 words)

	Job Opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Courtauld Institute of Art, founded in 1932, is the established center in Britain for the study of the history of western art, and has a strong international reputation.
		Over four hundred art history students are currently at the Institute: roughly one third are undergraduates, one third are taking postgraduate taught courses, and one third are engaged in research at PhD level.
		The Slide Library is one of the largest Art History slide libraries in the country, containing 250,000 slides covering the history of art and architecture as it is taught in the Institute.
	www.vraweb.org /jobs/courtauld.htm (524 words)

	Notebook
		As a result the art of painting was given a new direction which made a return to the Middle Ages all but impossible.
		The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting in the Caves of Tun-Huang.
		The Mimbres Art and Archaeology, with an Introduction by J.J. Brody.
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts (2155 words)

	UVa School of Architecture \| Courtauld Institute of Art Semester
		The teaching is shared by three Courtauld faculty members: Dr. Paul Crossley, who is a medievalist, Dr. Georgia Clarke, who specializes in Italian Renaissance architecture, and the director of the program, John Newman, who covers post-medieval British architecture to 1914.
		The Courtauld faculty is willing to advise students on their research during this time.
		Please note that the schedule for Courtauld is later than the other study abroad programs to accommodate the needs and curriculum of Architectural History graduate students.
	urban.arch.virginia.edu /studyabroad/programs/courtauld (299 words)

	Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2 : tourist information from TourUK
		The Courtauld Institute of Art was established by the textile magnate Samuel Courtauld in 1931 to offer a university degree in art history, the first in England.
		The Courtauld Institute Gallery opened to the public in 1958 in Woburn Square.
		Samuel Courtauld's collections of Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings have been added to by donations, and include the collection of Count Antoine Seilern, who donated 14th to 20th century paintings.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_galleries/courtauld_institute1.htm (367 words)

	Courtauld Institute Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A small library devoted to art history, the Courtauld Institute Library operates within the structure of the Courtauld Institute of Art, which combines teaching and research with a museum collection.
		The Courtauld Institute Library is a last resort reference library for most users, including master's students.
		For example, the class mark for a paper presented by Svetlana Alpers at the International Rubens Symposium at the Ringling Museum of Art in 1982 was under the class mark D673R.
	www.du.edu /~pkeeran/london/courtauld.htm (607 words)

	Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 - Courtauld Institute of Art - ...
		The most ambitious exhibition yet staged by the Courtauld, Art on The Line will recreate the golden age of British art and promises to be a highlight of The British Art Season.
		Art on The Line will take up the entire top floor of Somerset House’s recently restored Fine Rooms with the magnificent Great Room providing the main focus of attention, precisely as it did in the past.
		Here, in Sir William Chambers’ imposing and elegant gallery, one of Europe’s earliest purpose-built spaces to display modern art, a dazzling array of paintings by the leading masters of the day will be hung in period fashion, frame-to-frame and from floor to ceiling.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/10/18/29260.html (453 words)

	Featured Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Courtauld gallery is situated in the Strand Block, which was originally the home of the Royal Academy Of Arts until it moved to Burlington House in 1837.
		There are eleven Courtauld collections, but the two most important are from Samuel Courtauld and Count Antoine Seilen.
		Courtauld, a great lover of art, had set up the Courtauld Institute Of Art in 1931, which was the first school in Britain to offer courses in Fine Art.
	www.artrepublic.com /wow/featuredmuseums/museum.asp?mus_id=506 (222 words)

	Sculpture and Decorative Arts Curator (Getty Press Release)
		Boström received her Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, focusing on the collection and display of sculpture in Florence and Rome in the 16th century.
		She is a member of the College Art Association, the Association of Art Museum Curators, the Association of Mid–West Art Historians, the Society for Renaissance Studies, the Garden History Society, Preservation Wayne, and Pewabic Pottery, and she was on the editorial board of The Sculpture Journal (London; 1995–2000).
		Among her awards are the Henry Moore scholarship, presented through the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the Elfrida Manning prize for the study of sculpture.
	www.getty.edu /news/press/center/newcurator_04.html (961 words)

	IC Reporter, Courtauld Institute hosts C&G reception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Founded in 1932, the Courtauld Institute of Art is the foremost centre in Britain for the study of the history of European art and has an international reputation.
		Since 1989 the Courtauld Institute has occupied one of the grandest and most famous neo-classical buildings in London - the Strand Block of Somerset House, which was built by Sir William Chambers between 1776-80.
		Samuel Courtauld, the founder, endowed the Institute with his collection of superb Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
	www.ic.ac.uk /publications/reporterarchive/0028/feat02.htm (418 words)

	The Clark - “Art History and the Unseen” Revealed at Public Conversation October 29 at the Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Clark - “Art History and the Unseen” Revealed at Public Conversation October 29 at the Clark
		“Art History and the Unseen” Revealed at Public Conversation October 29 at the Clark
		The wider quest to represent the unseen and the invisible has been part of artistic striving for many centuries and in many cultures.
	www.clarkart.edu /make_a_visit/press_releases/content.cfm?ID=495 (80 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LONDON - The Courtauld Institute of Art announces that, following the retirement of Professor Eric Fernie at the end of the year, the new director will be Professor James Cuno, professor of history of art and architecture, Harvard University, and director of the Harvard University Art Museums.
		The institute also includes the Sir Robert Witt and Lord Conway photographic libraries comprising almost two million photographs of works of art by more than 75,000 artists and over one million photographs and images of architecture, sculpture and medieval painting, respectively; as well as a library of almost 150,000 volumes.
		From August 1, the Courtauld Institute of Art will become an independent College of the University of London subject to the final approval of the Council in July.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /TT0-06-18-2002-11-39-42.htm (804 words)

	Harvard Gazette: James Cuno ends 11-year tenure
		James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art to lead its transformation into an independent college of the University of London.
		Hyman said that addressing the physical needs of the Art Museums will be a priority for interim leadership and for the next director.
		At present HUAM is working with the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano on a renovation of the Fogg Art Museum and a master plan for the Art Museums issues.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/06.13/05-cuno.html (573 words)

	Eye for Beauty: Collectors and the History of British Watercolor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These men were connoisseurs, individuals qualified to act as critical judges of art because of their understanding of its formal beauty, techniques and compositional principles.
		Their collection of 100 outstanding watercolors was bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute in 1967.
		He later married, and sold the main part of his collection to The Huntington, establishing the institution as one of the greatest repositories of British watercolor outside the United Kingdom.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/EyeForBeauty2005/EyeForBeauty2005.html (724 words)

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