Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection
Stewarded intergenerationally for over seven decades, The Abrams Family Collection represents a love of collecting and a passion for living with art fostered by renown art book publishers Harry N. Abrams and his son, Robert. For over seventy years, the Abrams family has brought art into the homes of millions of readers through the publishing of beautifully illustrated and meticulously written books on art and artists. Harry and Robert Abrams amassed an art collection of the same uncompromising quality, developing relationships with artists in pursuit of collecting the art of one’s time without aesthetic boundaries.
The collection represents a cross-section of artistic production in a myriad of styles without limitations in terms of abstraction versus figuration, gender, racial or nationalistic genres. The unifying thread that weaves the collection together is quality and diversity, notions the Abrams family also pioneered through their publishing endeavors and their interest in extending artists’ voices through books. The Abrams Family Collection can be seen as part of the legacy of this great American family, which has its own American story to be told through the artists they championed and the works of art they acquired.