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Although the emphasis in this biography of J.P. Morgan is on his financial dealings, the author devotes considerable space to his art and book acquisitions that occupied him through his later years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898--1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world's great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock.Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through...

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The book includes an excellent essay on the art-collecting skills of Gabrielle Keiller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition, that was curated by Judith Zilczer, dsplayed a fraction of the early 20th century modern art collected by Quinn, the most important collector of such art in America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.