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Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A story spanning a decade and starring a cast of characters straight out of novel-from rock icons and film stars, art dealers and art forgers-brings to life the bitter debate over the authenticity of a series of paintings by the most famous American artist of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history. This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major private collection. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and daily life of numerous North American tribes, including Acoma, Apache, Cheyenne,...
Author
Publisher
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"'The Art of Living' explores the role of art in the lives of incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II at the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in southeastern Arkansas through selected works held by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock. The collection features paintings, drawings, woodwork, and other objects of art created by children and adults during their time in the two Arkansas...
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art represents works that celebrate the expression and passion of twenty artists, including Romare Bearden, Margaret Burroughs, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Ann Tanksley, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. This book contains all fifty-eight works from the collection, exquisitely reproduced in full color. Grace C. Stanislaus provides a text on the significance of the collection...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey--to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace--made possible above all by a family's love"--
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the history of Van Gogh's collection and analyses its composition and quality, and is accompanied by almost 150 illustrations of many of the prints he himself owned and which are now held in the Van Gogh Museum. These prints, by artists including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, lend us a compelling insight into one of the most powerful creative influences behind Van Gogh's art.Vincent van Gogh fell under the spell of Japanese...
Publisher
The San Diego Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This catalogue will accompany the exhibition that will take place at the San Diego Museum of the Arts, celebrating the multifaceted history of Latin American modernism with an exhibition given by one of the most important private collections in the world. "Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection" traces the trajectory from the late 1800s to the first decade of our century, expressing the work of seminal figures from countries...
Author
Publisher
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The firm of Fabergé, jeweller to the Russian court, was founded in St. Petersburg in 1842. Expanded by the founder's son, Peter Carl Fabergé (1846?1920), the firm became one of the most famous jewellers of the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Major American collectors, such as Marjorie Merriweather Post, played a significant role in Fabergé's fame after the fall of the imperial regime, and her mansion at Hillwood in Washington, DC now has a collection...
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