Globe Pequot Press | ISBN:0762779500 | File Type: PDF, 288 pages | File size: 69.Mb | Nov. 6th, 2012
General United States Travel: Discovering America s Hidden Art Museums 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 Ansel Adams icasso van Gogh Monet Hokusai and O Keeffe wound up where they did is a colorf tale of American art collecting and history It s the story of patrician families who acquired masterworks self made millionaires who used their business savvy to outbid rivals and prescient collectors who championed new artists and neglected genres A visit to each of the fifty museums in this book offers an art viewing experience 360 degrees different from most museum visits one that is personal intimate and blissfly uncrowded The museums in A Love for the Beautif deliver for today s travelers transforming routine business trips and forming the basis for memorable destination weekends and getaways
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