Author: SUTTON, PETER C.
Title: The William Appleton Coolidge Collection
Description: Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. First Edition (?). Hardcover. ISBN: 0878464530. Cover is green with gold lettering on front and the spine. Ecru endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DJ is new. Exhaustively illustrated with 40 color plates and 70 duo-tones. "The collection formed by Coolidge speaks of a remarkable breadth of taste, of a spirit responsive to works of art of all periods, and of visual discrimination of a high order...keen to benefit a wider audience; for years...were on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, and before his death Mr. Coolidge had begun to donate masterpieces....this catalogue...includes works bequeathed to the Museum as well as those that remain in the family". Sections are: Introduction by Peter C. Sutton; Part I: Bequest to the Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings, Decorative Arts and Sculpture; Part II: Works of Art formerly in the Coolidge Collection; Concordance; Index. Paintings range by masters from Andrea del Sarto, through Rubens, Canaletto, to Edgar Degas. Oversized, 4.5#. ; Photographs; 10 1/4 x 10 1/2; 199 pages. New in New dust jacket .

Keywords: 0878464530 Art; Artists; Art Collecting; Art Collectors; William Appleton Coolidge; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum Catalogue; Museum Collections; Paintings;


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