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A museum of one's own : private collecting, public gift

text A museum of one's own : private collecting, public gift

Summary
By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with th... Read more
Contents

Introduction -- Not a museum in the usual sense -- Acquisition on the highest terms -- Homes for history -- Self-portrait as a museum -- From private home to public museum -- Epilogue.

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Description
xvii, 241 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans ; 26 x 28 cm.
Publisher
Periscope Pub. 2009

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Woodmere (Main Branch) OVS 708 HIG in Oversize Available

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