Resumen de Holmes, Fry, Jaccaci and the 'Art in America' Section of The Burlington Magazine, 1905-10
In November 1903, August F. Jaccaci (Fig.I8), an American editor who was then engaged in preparing a fifteen-volume series on private collections of paintings in the United States, instructed his agent in Europe about the attitude he should adopt when approaching the editors of the newly founded BURLINGTON MAGAZINE: 'try to impress [them] as an equal', he wrote, 'not as an amateur or collector in search of information." A few years later Jaccaci became the editor of the 'Art in America' section of the Magazine, a short-lived initiative which ran from 1905 to 1910. However, the relationship between Charles Holmes and Roger Fry, successive editors of the Burlington on the one hand, and on the other Frank Jewett Mather Jr and Jaccaci, editors of the Magazine's 'Art in America' section, was never quite one between equals, based as it was on differing views of the section's scope and purpose, which ultimately resulted in the project's demise.
