American Art and Philanthropy

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Twenty Years of Collecting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Peter C. Marzio

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The American art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has grown significantly over the past two decades and reached new heights with such spectacular recent acquisitions as Albert Bierstadt’s Indians Spear Fishing and Frank Stella’s Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III). Along with showcasing artworks from the colonial period to the present, this beautiful and inspiring book explores the museum’s mission of collection-building and how it is exemplified by the generosity of its donors.

American Art and Philanthropy is organized in a chronological fashion and also emphasizes common visual themes in the collection. The museum’s many acclaimed special collections are highlighted, including the 1996 acquisition of a large group of works by Jackson Pollock, the 2002 Helen Williams Drutt Collection of artist-made jewelry, and the 2007 Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection of modern and contemporary ceramics.



Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Peter C. Marzio is the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

"The monumental book boasts fold-out glimpses of the museum walls, as well as expert commentary from curators."—Steven Thompson, Culture Map
ISBN: 9780300167566
Publication Date: November 18, 2010
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
388 pages, 9 x 12
365 color illus.
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