{"id":62,"date":"2020-04-29T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-3570-spring-2020\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:05:37","slug":"william-schaus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-3570-spring-2020\/gallery-bios\/william-schaus\/","title":{"rendered":"William Schaus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Active Dates:<\/b> 1820-1892<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallerist: <\/b>William Schaus<\/span><\/p>\n

Location<\/b>:1<\/a><\/sup>All dates and locations from “American Art News, Vol. 9, No. 18.” American Art News 9, no. 18 (1911): 1-8. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

1853-1883: 749 Broadway<\/span><\/p>\n

1856: 629 Broadway<\/span><\/p>\n

1863: 729 Broadway<\/span><\/p>\n

1890: 204 Fifth Avenue<\/span><\/p>\n

Specialty:<\/b> Landscapes and genre paintings of American and European artists. <\/span><\/p>\n

Gallery History<\/b><\/p>\n

William Schaus opened his first gallery in 1853, and he steadily maintained different gallery spaces on Broadway Street until selling his company to his nephew, Herman Schaus, in 1886.2<\/a><\/sup> “American Art News, Vol. 9, No. 18.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

William Schaus was of German descent. In 1847, he moved from Paris to work in the New York branch of Goupil & Co. He was charming, persuasive, and highly successful; after fifteen years working for Goupil & Co., and a lack of profits to reflect his success as a dealer, he left and opened his own gallery and art supply store (\u201cImporters of Paintings, Engravings, and Artists\u2019 Materials\u201d [but may have been known as \u201cWilliam Schaus and Company\u201d]) in 1853 at 749 Broadway.3<\/a><\/sup>Malcolm Goldstein. Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States. Oxford University Press, New York. 2000. 55.<\/span> <\/span>He not only held exhibitions, but also he sold frames among various art supplies as well as published many prints. In the beginning of his independent career, he supported many American artists such as William Sidney Mount, Jasper Cropsey, and Lilly Martin Spencer.4<\/a><\/sup> “American Art News, Vol. 9, No. 18.”<\/span>\u00a0Goldstein, Malcolm, Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States. Oxford University Press, New York. 2000. 55.[\/mfn] <\/span>The majority of these works were landscape paintings or depicted domestic scenes. Despite this admiration for American painters, Schaus continued to exhibit and sell European art and soon transitioned to showing European paintings, sculptures, and prints nearly exclusively. Unlike many of his fellow leading New York collectors, he occasionally bought and sold European master paintings\u2014despite the strong fear surrounding the risk of forgeries.5<\/a><\/sup> \u201cWilliam Schaus.\u201d Metropolitan Museum of Art. metmuseum.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Schaus bought and sold the first Rembrandt to America\u2014\u201cThe Gilder\u201d\u2014as well as many other notable European works of Goya, Rousseau, Gericault, Corot, Diaz, Dupre, Israels, and Van Dyck, among others.6<\/a><\/sup> \u201cWilliam Schaus.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Illustrations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Unknown artist. Castle Gardens, The Second Deluge, First Appearance of Jenny Lind in America.\u00a0Published by William Schaus. Lithograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Date Written: <\/b>April 24, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Contributors: <\/b>KS, AB<\/span><\/p>\n

William Schaus Gallery Bio PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Primary Sources<\/b><\/p>\n

“American Art News, Vol. 9, No. 18.” <\/span>American Art News<\/span><\/i> 9, no. 18 (1911): 1-8.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondary Sources<\/b><\/p>\n

Goldstein, Malcolm, <\/span>Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United\u00a0<\/span><\/i>States.<\/span><\/i> Oxford University Press, New York. 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Clair, Michael, \u201cThe Art Dealers.\u201d <\/span>The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How So Much\u00a0<\/span><\/i>of China\u2019s Art Came to America. <\/span><\/i>Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. 102.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam Schaus.\u201d <\/span>Metropolitan Museum of Art. <\/span><\/i>metmuseum.org.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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