A love for the beautiful
Subtitle: discovering America's hidden art museums
By: Susan Jaques
Edition: First [edition].
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780762779505
Subjects: ART / American / General; Art museums; TRAVEL / United States / General
Description: "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, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai, and O'Keeffe wound up where they did is a colorful 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 blissfully uncrowded. The museums in A Love for the Beautiful deliver for today's travelers, transforming routine business trips and forming the basis for memorable destination weekends and getaways.  "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Chapter 1: African, Pre-Columbian & Oceanic ArtDumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IndianaMenil Collection, Houston, Texas Chapter 2: American ArtAddison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MassachusettsColby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MaineFlorence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, ConnecticutSecond Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chapter 3: Ancient ArtMichael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GeorgiaOriental Institute Museum, Chicago, IllinoisWalters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Chapter 4: Asian ArtHonolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HawaiiPacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CaliforniaRubin Museum of Art, New York, New York Chapter 5: Contemporary ArtDes Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IowaKemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MissouriTelfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia Chapter 6: Decorative ArtsBayou Bend, Houston, TexasCalifornia Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CaliforniaShelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont Chapter 7: Design & CraftMint Museum, Charlotte, North CarolinaMuseum of Glass, Tacoma, WashingtonRacine Art Museum, Racine, WisconsinWolfsonian-FIU, Miami, Florida Chapter 8: European Painting, 18th to 20th centuryChrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VirginiaDixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TennesseeMcNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas Chapter 9: Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque ArtAllen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OhioRingling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FloridaTaft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OhioTimken Museum of Art, San Diego, CaliforniaChapter 10: Modern ArtKreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GeorgiaSheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NebraskaWeisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota Chapter 11: Native American & Western ArtFenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New YorkMillicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New MexicoNew Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New MexicoWhitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming Chapter 12: PhotographyGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, New YorkMonterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CaliforniaMuseum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois Chapter 13: SculptureBesthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans, LouisianaCantor Arts Center, Palo Alto, CaliforniaFrederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Chapter 14: Single-Artist MuseumsBrandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PennsylvaniaCharles Hosmer Morse Museum, Winter Park, FloridaClyfford Still Museum, Denver, ColoradoDali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida Chapter 15: Spanish & Latin American ArtArt Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.Hispanic Society of America, New York, New YorkMeadows Museum, Dallas, Texas.