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Named Person: | John Walker; John Walker |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Walker |
ISBN: | 0316918032 9780316918039 |
OCLC Number: | 922693 |
Notes: | "An Atlantic Monthly Press book." Includes index. |
Description: | xxvi, 320 pages illustrations 24 cm |
Contents: | Learning to use other people's money -- Curators, directors and donors -- Anxieties and adventures -- The ghost in fenway Court : Isabella Stewart Gardner -- Life at I Tatti : Bernard Berenson -- The collector who founded a museum : Andrew W. Mellon -- Two unwary collectors : Samuel and Ruth H. Kress -- The most unlikely collector : Chester Dale -- The second generation : Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce -- Collecting as a business : Armand Hammer -- The collector who got away : Calouste Gulbenkian -- Collecting in partnership : Charles and Jayne Wrightsman -- Three English colleagues : Francis Watson, John Pope-Hennessey, Kenneth Clark -- Summing up. |
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- Walker, John, -- 1906-1995.
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- Walker, John, -- 1906-1995
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- Art -- Collectors and collecting.
- United States.
- Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
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