A love for the beautiful : 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, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai, and O'Keeffe wound up where they did is a colorful tale of American art collecting. The fifty muse...
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Globe Pequot Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- African, Pre-Columbian & Oceanic art. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC ; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana ; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
- American art. The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts ; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine ; The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut ; The Portrait Gallery of the Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Ancient art. The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia ; The Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois ; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
- Asian art. The Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii ; The Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California ; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, New York
- Contemporary art. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa ; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri ; Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia
- Decorative arts. Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, Houston, Texas ; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California ; The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont
- Design & craft. Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina ; Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington ; Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin ; Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, Florida
- European painting, 18th to 20th century. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia ; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee ; The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
- Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque art. The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio ; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida ; The Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio ; The Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
- Modern art. The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC ; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia ; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska ; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Native American & Western art. Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico ; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico ; Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming
- Photography. George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York ; The Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California ; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
- Sculpture. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans, Louisiana ; The Cantor Arts Center, Palo Alto, California ; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Single-artists. The Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania ; The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida ; The Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, Colorado ; The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
- Spanish & Latin American art. The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC ; The Hispanic Society of America, New York, New York ; The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas.