Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (B&W)

by Pamela Carter-Birken

He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world-a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the first museum of modern art in America. It opened in the grand Phillips family home in 1921, eight years before New York City's Museum of Modern Art and only a few weeks after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648891071
• ISBN13: 9781648891076
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"