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The Proud Possessors The lives, times and tastes of some adventurous American art collectors
The Proud Possessors The lives times and tastes of some adventurous American art collectors Author:Aline B. Saarinen Author covers 15 individuals and or families who collected American artworks during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes such names as Isabella Gardner, Pierpont Morgan, Freer, Havermeyer, Stein, Hirschorn, Webb, Gilcrease, Guggenheim, and Rockerfeller. Included are illustrations of personalities and artworks. Author is herself from a notable, ... more »inventive design family. She includes notes on sources and interviews. For anyone interested in how the great American collections came to be the foundations of many of the great Museums we enjoy today.« less