Author: Washington, DC: Phillips Collection, Sept. 23, 2000 to Jan. 21, 2001
Title: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks
Description: London, Merrell, 2000. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth/color DJ. 144 pp. Numerous color plates. This beautifully illustrated book examines the developing taste for modern art in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century through a comparison of the collections formed by two members of the generation that succeeded the Robber Barons. "This illustrated book accompanies an exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and presents nearly sixty key Impressionist and modernist paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from Tannahill's collection at The Detroit Institute of Arts alongside their counterparts from Duncan Phillips's collection. The artists represented include Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Graves, Hartley, Ingres, Klee, Manet, Marc, Marin, Matisse, Modigliani, Moore, Picasso, Renoir, Rivera, Rouault, Seurat, and Toulouse-Lautrec."--Jacket. Contents as follows: A taste for modernism : Robert Hudson Tannahill's compatriots and colleagues / Karen Wilkin -- Robert Hudson Tannahill and Duncan Phillips : collectors and patrons / Stephen Bennett Phillips -- Robert Hudson Tannahill : some personal reminiscences / Charles H. Sawyer. VG/VG .

Keywords: European Art ; Impressionist and Modern Masterworks ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art


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