Art Thoughts, The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe (German Edition)
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Italian Sights and Papal Principles: Seen Through American Spectacles (Classic Reprint)
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James Jackson Jarves was an American newspaper editor, and art critic.
Background
Jarves was born on August 20, 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Deming Jarves of "Sandwich glass" fame and of Anna Smith (Stutson) Jarves. His youth was spent in Boston and Sandwich, on Cape Cod, where his family had a country home.
Education
Although Jarves attended Chauncy Hall School in Boston this studious, inquisitive, and sensitive boy's education was largely acquired by wide reading, and by the collection and observation of natural objects. At one time he wished to become a historian, and at another a physician; however, at the age of fifteen he was forced by illness and impaired eyesight to abandon his studies. Although his bitter disappointment at his inability to enter Harvard College lasted throughout his life, he was of too adventurous and enthusiastic a spirit to be long daunted.
Career
Jarves's extensive travels to California, Mexico, Central America, and the Hawaiian Islands were duly recorded in a number of volumes. In 1840, during his stay in Honolulu, he founded and became the editor of a weekly newspaper, the Polynesian, and four years later he became director of the government press, his journal becoming the official organ of the Hawaiian government. As he was commissioned to negotiate commercial treaties with the United States, Great Britain, and France, he returned home in 1848 and visited Europe a few years later. Jarves found European, and particularly Italian, atmosphere so congenial that he settled in Florence, never wishing to leave it again for any length of time. He immediately began to set down his observations and impressions with his usual meticulous care and eventually published a dozen volumes, dealing largely with the early Italian art. As if this were not enough, Jarves served as United States vice-consul at Florence from 1880 to 1882.
Jarves began his active collecting, with his art criticism, early in the fifties. His paintings formed the largest and most important collection of early Italian masters which had up to that time been brought to America, for the Bryan Collection, which had arrived in 1853 and was presented to the New-York Historical Society in 1867, contained only about thirty examples. The reception of his pictures, however, was disappointing from the first. In 1860, ten years before the incorporation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, they were exhibited at the Derby Galleries, 625 Broadway, and again, in 1863, in the rooms of the New-York Historical Society. Jarves himself prepared the catalogue, fortifying it with a long list of documents from the chief European and American critics. After his friend, Charles Eliot Norton, failed to interest either Boston or Harvard in the collection, Jarves, who was embarrassed financially, agreed to deposit his pictures, for a period of three years as security for a loan, in the newly completed art school building at Yale.
When in 1871 Jarves was unable to pay off this mortgage, he permitted the collection of 119 paintings to be sold at auction to the University, which made the only bid. A later collection of early Italian pictures was exhibited in the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-1884. Neither the Yale nor the Cleveland pictures were greatly esteemed by the public until some fifty or sixty years after their purchase by Jarves, fully thirty years after his death. In 1881 Jarves gave his collection of Venetian glass in memory of his father to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at considerable sacrifice to himself and to his family, thus practising what he had so long preached. He sold his collection of embroideries, laces, costumes, and Renaissance fabrics in New York in 1887. Had he been wealthy he would have become a great patron of art; as it was he exhausted his entire fortune. In spite of many disappointments and vicissitudes, he attained his chief aim, though not until a generation had passed away. Jarves died in Switzerland at Tarasp in the Engadine and was buried in the English Cemetery at Rome.
Jarves was a voluminous writer and his books contain much of biographical interest. Among them are: Account of the Visit of the French Frigate l'Artemise at the Sandwich Islands (Honolulu, 1839); History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands (1843, 1844, and 1847); Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands, and a Trip Through Central America (Boston, 1843, 1844, London, 1844); Scenes and Scenery in California (1844), a volume written before the course of conquest by the United States and the discovery of gold, and having, therefore, a peculiar interest and value; Parisian Sights and French Principles Seen Through American Spectacles (2 vols. , New York, 1852, and London, 1853); Art-Hints, Architecture, Sculpture and Painting (1855); Italian Sights and Papal Principles Seen Through American Spectacles (1856); Why and What am I? The Confessions of an Inquirer. In three parts, Part I, Heart-Experience, or the Education of the Emotions (1857); Kiana: A Tradition of Hawaii (1857), a romance; Descriptive Catalogue of "Old Masters" (1860); Art-Studies: the "Old Masters" of Italy: Painting (1861); The Art Idea, Part second of Confessions of an Inquirer (1864), reprinted in 1865 under the title: The Art Idea: Sculpture, Paintings, and Architecture in America, with later editions following; Art Thoughts, the Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe (1869, 1871, and 1879); "Museums of Art, Artists, and Amateurs in America, " the Galaxy, July 1870; A Glimpse at the Art of Japan (1876); Italian Rambles: Studies of Life and Manners in New and Old Italy (1883, 1885); Retrospective Art Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition (1883); Hand Book for Visitors to the Hollenden Gallery of Old Masters, Exhibited at the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-1884 (1884); and Pepero, the Boy Artist; A Brief Memoir of James Jackson Jarves, Jr. (1891), a tribute to his son, an artistic genius, who died at the age of fifteen, written the year of Jarves' death and published three years later.
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Membership
Jarves was an honorary member of the Academia delle Belle Arti of Florence, a corresponding member of the American Oriental Society, and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Connections
Jarves was married to Elizabeth Russell Swain at New Bedford, Massachussets, on October 2, 1838, and to Isabel Kast Hayden at Boston on April 30, 1862. He survived them both and four of his six children.