A love for the beautiful : discovering America's hidden art museums / Susan Jaques.
"Some of the country's best art is hidden in plain sight, in museums largely unknown outside their regions. How works by masters like Rembrandt, Rodin, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai, and O'Keeffe wound up where they did is a colorful tale of American art collecting. The fifty museums in A Love f...
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Globe Pequot Press,
[2012]
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| Physical Description: | 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: African, Pre-Columbian & Oceanic ArtDumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IndianaMenil Collection, Houston, Texas Chapter 2: American ArtAddison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MassachusettsColby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MaineFlorence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, ConnecticutSecond Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chapter 3: Ancient ArtMichael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GeorgiaOriental Institute Museum, Chicago, IllinoisWalters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Chapter 4: Asian ArtHonolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HawaiiPacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CaliforniaRubin Museum of Art, New York, New York Chapter 5: Contemporary ArtDes Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IowaKemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MissouriTelfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia Chapter 6: Decorative ArtsBayou Bend, Houston, TexasCalifornia Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CaliforniaShelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont Chapter 7: Design & CraftMint Museum, Charlotte, North CarolinaMuseum of Glass, Tacoma, WashingtonRacine Art Museum, Racine, WisconsinWolfsonian-FIU, Miami, Florida Chapter 8: European Painting, 18th to 20th centuryChrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VirginiaDixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TennesseeMcNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas Chapter 9: Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque ArtAllen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OhioRingling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FloridaTaft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OhioTimken Museum of Art, San Diego, CaliforniaChapter 10: Modern ArtKreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GeorgiaSheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NebraskaWeisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota Chapter 11: Native American & Western ArtFenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New YorkMillicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New MexicoNew Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New MexicoWhitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming Chapter 12: PhotographyGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, New YorkMonterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CaliforniaMuseum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois Chapter 13: SculptureBesthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans, LouisianaCantor Arts Center, Palo Alto, CaliforniaFrederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Chapter 14: Single-Artist MuseumsBrandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PennsylvaniaCharles Hosmer Morse Museum, Winter Park, FloridaClyfford Still Museum, Denver, ColoradoDali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida Chapter 15: Spanish & Latin American ArtArt Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.Hispanic Society of America, New York, New YorkMeadows Museum, Dallas, Texas.