Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
American art & philanthropy American art & philanthropy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston "American Art & Philanthropy: Twenty Years of Collecting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston provides a new window into the museum's significant collection of American art. This collection has grown … OL15507841W
Art lover Art lover Anton Gill "Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the full. How she became one of the century's foremost coll… OL15825288W
The English prize The English prize María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés "Laden with works of art acquired by young British travelers on the Grand Tour in Italy, the British merchant ship Westmorland sailed from the Italian port of Livorno before being captured by French … OL16361693W
Wagstaff Wagstaff Philip Gefter A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon)… OL19637079W
Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Guggenheim Francine Prose Contains primary source material. A biography of one of twentieth century America's most influential patrons of the arts that covers her personal life, uncompromising spirit, and relationships with … OL19667667W
America collects eighteenth-century French painting America collects eighteenth-century French painting Joseph Baillio,Joseph J. Rishel,Melissa Lee Hyde,Pierre Rosenberg,Robert Schindler,Christophe Leribault,Jack Hinton,Yuriko Jackall,Philippe Bordes,Susan Earle,D. Dodge Thompson "Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions… OL19720356W
Breakfast at Sotheby's Breakfast at Sotheby's Philip Hook An experienced international art dealer describes how paintings and other works of art are each given a financial value, based on the artist, their movement or "-isms", what their life has been like,… OL19991386W
Hitler's art thief Hitler's art thief Susan Ronald "The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartmen… OL20012898W
The Hunt The Hunt Patrick Parrish 159 pages : 22 cm OL20170692W
Enchanted lives, enchanted objects Enchanted lives, enchanted objects Dianne Sachko Macleod "This book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided… OL2936111W
Inventing the Art Collection Inventing the Art Collection Oscar E. Vazquez "The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts - paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans - increased sharply in nineteenth-century Spain, and new institutions and practices for ex… OL9368369W
The Prime Minister of Taste The Prime Minister of Taste Morris Brownell "In this book, Morris Brownell offers a fresh account of the career and influence of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the great English man of letters and art historian. Rejecting both the traditional vie… OL9381209W