So I’ve continued asking collectors this question:
I’m looking to put together a post sometime in the near future about how collector’s are storing and/or displaying their collections. If you’d care to share, please feel free to reply with any info.
And yesterday I received this response:
Arthur Szyk collection on display at the Holocaust Museum Houston
Or at least that’s a little taste of the impressive end product of the response received from Arthur Szyk and Doctor Seuss collector Gregg Philipson.
If you’re around the Houston area you can view Gregg’s collections on display at the Holocaust Museum Houston: Education Center and Memorial.
Gregg’s Dr. Seuss Wants You exhibit went on display in the Museum’s Central Gallery September 26, 2008 and runs through July 9, 2009. From the Press Release:
Most of the artwork in the exhibit was developed while Geisel (Seuss) served as chief political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM from 1941 to 1943, a period in which the Nazi regime prospered–prompting more than 400 political cartoons from Geisel.
The original papers are on loan from Gregg and Michelle Philipson of Austin. Gregg Philipson is a member of the Museum’s Advisory Board and a collector of Geisel memorabilia.
The Szyk display, A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk, launched October 20, 2008 in the Museum’s Mincberg Gallery and remains on display through July 26, 2009. Again we go to the official release:
“A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk” will highlight the private collection of Gregg and Michelle Philipson of Austin and will include loans of important work from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the United States Naval Academy Museum.
Greg Philipson, a member of the Museum’s Advisory Board who also is a collector of Szyk artwork, will speak at the reception.
The Holocaust Museum Houston is located at 5401 Caroline Street in Houston, Texas. Open seven days a week, General Admission to the Museum is free.
It’s many a collector’s dream to have their collection reach the status of museum display–Gregg has two going at the same time!
More of Gregg's Arthur Szyk collection on display
Obviously, in Gregg’s case, these are advanced collections, but at the same time I’m sure he didn’t start out with the intention of museum display. Gregg’s Arthur Szyk and Dr. Seuss collections are a great example of the potential reward reaped by the public when a single individual’s vision and a passion for collecting are fully realized.
Thanks very much to Gregg for pointing me to the Museum displays online as well as sharing a wealth of his own private photos including the two shown above on this page.
A closer look at an Arthur Szyk illustration, this one accompanying the article "They Who Live By the Sword" by Erika Mann featured inside the October 27, 1945 issue of Liberty Magazine
