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The New York Public L i b r a r y

presents
 

An Art Book Series Event

Shared Space

Joseph M. Cohen in conversation
with Ray Merritt and Henry Buhl
 

Wednesday March 24, 2010
6:00 p.m.

Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Room 227 (2^nd Floor)

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue
5th  Avenue and 42nd Street
New York , NY 10018
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org

(directions)
 

Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
 

Editor Ray Merritt and philanthropist Henry Buhl will join art collector Joseph M. Cohen to discuss the publication of Shared Space The Joseph M. Cohen Collection , and his strategy of gathering one of the most varied and personal art collections in the world.

The reasons why people collect art are no doubt as simple and as complex as the reasons why people fall in love. The New York collector Joe Cohen has been quietly amassing a stupendous art collection for four decades, excluding no medium or subject, for the love of art, and its acquisition. The Cohen Family Collection is vast, but also very personal, often with a tale behind each work. Among the highlights of this collection are paintings by Tiepolo, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Balthus, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Joan Mitchell and David Hockney, and photographs by Atget, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Avedon, Sugimoto and Chuck Close. Edited by Ray Merritt, this massive celebration of the collection illustrates many of the works in situ, and, through informative and entertaining commentary, casts light on their diversity and significance.

Joseph M. Cohen, a New York collector, has been quietly amassing art for over forty years. His collection is without borders. Virtually no medium is missing and no subject is excluded. All basic art conventions are encompassed including portraiture, still life, landscape, urbanscape, realism and abstraction.

Ray Merritt has been active in the art world for over forty years. He has served as a Trustee of the International Center of Photography and as a member of the Photography Committees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Norton Museum of Art, where he served as Chair of the Photography Committee. Mr. Merritt lives in Sag Harbor and New York City .

Henry Buhl is a philanthropist, community activist and art collector. In 1993 Henry acquired his first hand themed photograph. It was Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hands With Thimble taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1920 that would be the beginning of his vast and symbolic collection. Although he had no intention of collecting hands at the time, Henry now has one of the most comprehensive collections of photographs focused on the human hand. The Buhl Collection was first exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum of New York in the summer of 2004 and has since been displayed in major museums around the world including those in Spain , Germany and Russia .

The program series An Art Book is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned artists, critics, historians, curators and writers.