Author: Eastberg, John C. and Eric Vogel
Title: Layton's Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888-2013
Description: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Layton Art Collection, Inc, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Milk chocolate brown cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, cream & color illus. dust jacket, 478 pp. profusely illus. in color & BW; weighs nearly 8 lbs. "Frederick Layton (1827-1919) was among the very first art collectors in America to fund a purpose-built civic art gallery for the public's use and enjoyment. Second only to the 1874 Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. the 1888 Layton Art Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presented a new model for the single-patron art museum in America, one significantly different from the established museums of Boston and New York .. [This book] draws on a recently discovered archive of Layton family papers, travel journals, and vintage photographs and on five years of extensive archival research in the United States and Great Britain.. [It] also includes the first fully illustrated documentation of the entire 125-year history of the Layton Art Collection, demonstrating its formative place in the development of the American art museum." (dj) A beautiful and hefty tome, and one that even smells good. (You know what we mean.). VG (DJ has a bit of wear at top edge; otherwise superb.) .
Keywords: American Art ; Layton Collection ; ; Collections - American Art
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Title: Layton's Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888-2013
Description: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Layton Art Collection, Inc, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Milk chocolate brown cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, cream & color illus. dust jacket, 478 pp. profusely illus. in color & BW; weighs nearly 8 lbs. "Frederick Layton (1827-1919) was among the very first art collectors in America to fund a purpose-built civic art gallery for the public's use and enjoyment. Second only to the 1874 Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. the 1888 Layton Art Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presented a new model for the single-patron art museum in America, one significantly different from the established museums of Boston and New York .. [This book] draws on a recently discovered archive of Layton family papers, travel journals, and vintage photographs and on five years of extensive archival research in the United States and Great Britain.. [It] also includes the first fully illustrated documentation of the entire 125-year history of the Layton Art Collection, demonstrating its formative place in the development of the American art museum." (dj) A beautiful and hefty tome, and one that even smells good. (You know what we mean.). VG (DJ has a bit of wear at top edge; otherwise superb.) .
Keywords: American Art ; Layton Collection ; ; Collections - American Art
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 148132
- Book number: 148132
See more books from our catalog: American Art