Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art 1928-1943
Nicholas Fox Weber, "Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art 1928-1943"
ISBN: 0394578546 | 1992 | EPUB | 398 pages | 12 MB
This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and family connections enabled Lincoln Kirstein, Edward M. M. Warburg, Agnes Mongan, James Thrall Soby, and A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr., to introduce the work of Picasso, Balanchine, Calder, and other important artists to the United States.