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