Monet to Moore
Subtitle: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
Contributors: Natalie H. Lee (Contributor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780300081343
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides; c 1800 to c 1900; Permanent Collection Catalogs; Art; Art & Art Instruction; USA; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / General; Art collections; Catalogues; Collections d'art; Cummings, Nathan; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; 20th century; Art, Modern; Catalogs; Chicago; Illinois; Private collections
Description: "One of the most significant - and least studied - forms of postwar art collecting in the United States has been the corporate collection. This book documents one of the most important and widely exhibited of these holdings: the collection of Sara Lee Corporation, fifty-two works selected from the personal collection of Sara Lee's founder Nathan Cummings."--BOOK JACKET.

"With major masterpieces ranging from an 1872 painting by Claude Monet to a 1964 bronze by Henry Moore, the Sara Lee Collection was assembled in 1980, five years before Cummings's death. In 1998 the corporation announced an unprecedented gift of the entire collection to a group of forty art museums, twenty-five in the United States and fifteen in international cities in which Sara Lee Corporation has a major presence.

This Millennium Gift is the largest single gift to the arts in American history and the first to include institutions outside the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book discusses the Nathan Cummings Collection, the Sara Lee Collection and the Millennium Gift. It also includes an essay on each of the fifty-two works that places the work in the context of the artist's oeuvre proposes new interpretations and discusses the position of the art in the collections of the recipient museums throughout the world. The book also provides more than 200 comparative photographs."--BOOK JACKET.