Product Description: The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of 20th-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This volume showcases the museum's holdings and provides details about their acquisition. The famed Chick Austin, director of the Atheneum from 1929 to 1944, purchased works by Matisse, Picasso, Ernst, de Chirico and mounted the first Surrealist exhibition in America, leading to the acquisition of works by Miro, Dali, Magritte and others...read more

An accompanying catalog to an exhibition by the Phillips Collection presents earlier works by the leading photojournalist from her days as a photographer of America's factories, machinery, and technology products, which served as a foundation for her magazine photography.

Collects works by French impressionist painters to commemorate the 1998/1999 exhibition (view table of contents)

Collects works by French impressionist painters to commemorate the 1998/1999 exhibition

Product Description: Highlighting the most important pieces from the museums galleries, Master Paintings: The Phillips Collection is a beautiful, practical reference book that will give art lovers of all persuasions a better appreciation of the scope and excellence of Americas first modern art museum...read more

Product Description: in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This lavish book gathers work from the Stieglitz circle as acquired by Duncan Phillips: paintings by Dove, Hartley, Marin, and OKeeffe, and Stieglitzs own photographic Equivalents. These artists defied European tradition, exhibiting a bold, original style that signaled arts coming of age in America...read more

Includes reproductions of 60 paintings from this series and provides critical essays and quotes from the artist himself