Entrée principale:

Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972, author.

Titre et auteur:

The proud possessors : the lives, times, and tastes of some adventurous American art collectors / Aline B. Saarinen.

Publication:

New York : Random House, [1958]
©1958

Description:

xxiv, 423 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-414) and index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- Provincial princess: Mrs. Potter Palmer -- C'est mon plaisir: Isabella Stewart Gardner -- The grandiose gesture: J. Pierpont Morgan -- Gamesmanship: John G. Johnson -- Tea and champagne: Charles Lang Freer -- The last word: The Henry O. Havemeyers -- Americans in Paris: Gertrude, Leo, Michael and Sarah Stein -- Patron: John Quinn -- Propagandist: Katherine Sophie Dreiser -- The quiet world: Edward Wales Root -- Little man in a big hurry: Joseph H. Hirshhorn -- Americana: Electra Havemeyer Webb -- Cowboys and Indians: Thomas Gilcrease -- Appassionata of the avant-garde: Peggy Guggenheim -- The one luxury: The Rockefellers.
Wilson, R. A. Gertrude Stein, J

Résumé:

Includes material on the art collections of J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Gilcrease, Peggy Guggenheim, the Rockefeller family, and the Stein family, among others.

Sujet:

Art Collectors and collecting United States Biography.
Art objects Collectors and collecting.
Objets d'art Collectionneurs et collections.
Art Collectionneurs et collections États-Unis Biographies.
Art Collectors and collecting
United States

Classification/genre:

Biography.
Writings.
Biographies

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 226259
Cote: N7480.S112.8.A35 1958
Statut: Disponible