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Monet to Moore : the millennium gift of Sara Lee Corporation / Richard R.

Monet to Moore : the millennium gift of Sara Lee Corporation / Richard R. Brettell with Natalie H. Lee Paperback - 1999

by Brettell, Richard R

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New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 206 pages; xxi, 206 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition commencing at Singapore Museum of Art, 1 April-30 May 1999, and closing at the Art Institute of Chicago, 13 March-28 May 2000. One of the most significant--and least studied--forms of postwar art collecting in the United States has been the corporate collection. This beautiful 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. Subjects: Sara Lee Corporation - Cummings, Nathan 1896-1985 - Art collections - Exhibitions.
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Richard R. Brettell, curator of the Sara Lee Collection since its inception, is a professor in the interdisciplinary program in arts and humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Having served as a museum professional in Chicago and Dallas, he is the author of many other books, including the prize-winning "Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape, " published by Yale University Press. Natalie H. Lee is an independent art historian based in Dallas.