The Catherine and David O'Neill Collection of Old Master Prints and Drawings from the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art

Altoona: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 2011 — 32 p.Presented to the Museum in 2011, the Catherine and David O’Neill Collection of Old Master Drawings and Prints is among the Museum’s newest distinctive collections. A gift of the Frank and Margaret Sullivan Fund in honor of longtime SAMA supporters Catherine and David O’Neill, it features an outstanding group of works on paper by European Old Master artists. These include Albrecht Durer, Hendrik Goltzius, Pietro Novelli, Georg Pencz, and Rembrandt van Rijn along with the as-yet unidentified representatives of several distinguished artistic schools. Among the drawings and prints are studies for paintings as well as finished compositions. Subjects range from depictions of the Virgin Mary and other saints to allegorical figures and themes from literature. As a whole, the O’Neill Collection is particularly valuable in providing the historical context for the development of art in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe and, ultimately, the United States.