The Art of Wealth. The Huntingtons in the Gilded Age
San Marino, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2013.
Large quarto, xvi, 363 pages with 226 illustrations from photographs (many in colour, many full-page).
Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
'A rigorously researched study of what must be one of America's most exceptional collecting families.... Documenting their extraordinary string of art purchases, Shelley Bennett has put together a meticulous account of their varying tastes, cultural ambitions, multiple philanthropies, and innovative institutions' (rear cover blurb).
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