Collecting with Vision

Résumé du livre

"Illustrated with over 200 color images, this book boasts a stellar assemblage of paintings by leading American artists, Italian Renaissance and Baroque works, Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, and the work of artists like Eugene Delacroix, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin. The Museum also houses major collections of decorative art, including Tiffany and Galle glass, Worcester porcelain, and Gorham silver. The glass collection is internationally important and ranges from antiquity to studio works by William Morris and Lino Tagliapietra. Also included are major examples of photography, including iconic images of the American Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement."--BOOK JACKET.