American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection

by Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, Museum of Fine Arts, et al.

Book Overview

In 1920, Ima Hogg began an extensive collection of art and antiques that would chronicle America's tastes, styles, and customs from colonial times to the Victorian era. The daughter of a Texas governor, Miss Hogg continued to acquire works for her magnificent Houston home, Bayou Bend, until her death in 1975 at the age of ninety-three. Today Bayou Bend is owned and operated by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and is regarded as one of the country's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691059624
• ISBN13: 9780691059624
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 5.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.0" x 12.0"