"The noble buyer"
Subtitle: John Quinn, patron of the avant-garde
By: Judith Zilczer.
Contributors: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Publisher: Published for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, by the Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Quinn, John, 1870-1924 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Exhibitions; Art, French -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: “This book about the collector of modern art, John Quinn, was published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens in 1978. Quinn was a New York attorney and among the foremost of modern art patrons. He amassed a large collection, including more than fifty paintings by Pablo Picasso, sculpture by Contantin Brancusi and numerous examples of the most important post-Impressionists, Cubists, Fauves, etc. Full catalog entries.”--Publisher's description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 195-198.
Includes index.