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The Maeght Family: A Passion for Modern Art
by Isabelle Maeght  Publisher Comments If modern art has a “first family,” it might very well be the Maeghts, whose gallery in Paris provided a literal and figurative base for so many 20th-century masters. Here for the first time ever in book form is the story of this extraordinary family,...
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Henry F. Du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait
by Henry Dupont Synopsis World renowned for its vast woodland gardens, its 175-room house, and its unrivaled collection of American decorative arts, Winterthur in Delaware is today among the most beloved museums in the United States. In its earlier days Winterthur was the family...
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Princes as Patrons: The Art Collections of the Princes of Wales from the Renaissance to the Present Day: An Exhibition from the Royal Coll
by Mark Evans Synopsis Features the collections of the Princes of Wales....
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Henry Edwards Huntington: His Life and His Collections: A Docent Guide
by Selena A Spurgeon Synopsis A refreshing view of the lives of Henry Edwards and Arabella Huntington and the institution they created, drawn from original documents and letters in the Huntington archives. Written by a longtime Huntington docent, the book documents Huntington's...
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The Guggenheims: A Family History
by Debi Unger Publisher Comments Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century the Guggenheims, as a family, were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the...
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Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser
by Harriet Vyner Publisher Comments Arrested for possession of drugs with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the infamous 1967 Redlands bust, Robert Fraser embodied many of the elements that made up Swinging London in the 1960s: pop music, fashion, drugs, art, and cinema. A trendsetter...
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Mistress of Modernism Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim the Life of Peggy Guggenheim
by Mary V Dearborn Publisher Comments Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant terrible of the art world. Peggy's...
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Herschel V. Jones: The Imprint of a Great Collector
by Lisa Dickin Michaux Publisher Comments In 1916, Herschel V. Jones, a distinguished and passionate art collector, purchased 5,600 prints from William Mead Ladd of Portland, Oregon. Jones promptly gave his newly acquired etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs to The Minneapolis...
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Treasure Hunt: A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard
by William H Honan Publisher Comments In the last days of World War II, a thousand year-old trove of artworks and manuscripts, worth $200 million, disappeared from a mineshaft in Germany. Among the missing items were the world-famous Samuhel Gospels, a spectacular gold, silver and jewel...
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Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
by Anton Gill 
Publisher Comments "Mrs. Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?" she was once asked. "D'you mean my own, or other people's?" Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the...
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A Modern Patronage: de Menil Gifts to American and European Museums
by Marcia Brennan Publisher Comments In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered “things in which we believe,” as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection...
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Great Women Collectors
by Charlotte Gere Synopsis Catherine the Great of Russia acquired art voraciously. Cosmetics magnate Helena Rubenstein collected African and contemporary art, miniature furniture, and Victorian glass. Coco Chanel amassed all enormous hoard of French 18th-century furniture. This...
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The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Isabella Gardner Publisher Comments "The narrative is one long, messy, juicy gossip peppered with exclamations. . . . But gossip is an effective rhetoric for this life. . . . Gardner may have hoped, by burning her letters, to escape capture in yet another book plotted like a novel by Henry...
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The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market
by Lindsay Pollock Publisher Comments In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of...
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Duveen
by S N Behrman Publisher Comments The story of Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), the most spectacular art dealer of all time....
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Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress
by Martha Frick Symington Sanger Publisher Comments In 1919, at the age of thirty-one, Helen Clay Frick inherited $38 million, becoming the richest single woman in America. These riches, however, came at a price. Helen's tumultuous early life was shaped by her father's infamy as a union strikebreaker and...
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Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943
by Nicholas Fox Weber Synopsis This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and...
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Hislop's Official International Price Guide to Fine Art (Hislop's Official International Price Guide to Fine Art)
by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments Art Sales Index, or Hislop's as it is known in the world of fine art, is the essential guide that anyone buying art needs to make an informed purchase, and is being published in U.S. trade edition for the first time by House of Collectibles. This new...
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Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
by Anton Gill Publisher Comments Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century. After her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic...
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At Home with Art
by Estelle Ellis Publisher Comments At Home with Art is about art lovers, their passion for art, and their seemingly unquenchable desire to bring home the works that have captured their hearts. Whether the artworks are Picassos or posters, these people want to acquire and live with the art...
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