The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art

by Roma Connable, Roy R. Neuberger, Alfred Connable

Book Overview

"Few living persons have served the Metropolitan Museum of Art-indeed, the entire world of art and art museums-longer, or with more distinction, than Roy Neuberger. A man of taste, passion, persistence, and generosity, he has shared much of his great private collection with the public, and for generations has supported activities that bring people to museums, and motivate them to return again and again. Now, this giant of a man has recorded eighty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471273430
• ISBN13: 9780471273431
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Art and Artists

I found The Passionate Collector a wonderful book. As an artistthere was much useful information it it. It's a privilege to add this book to my collection of art books. Anyone interested in American artists of the 20th century must have it.

An insider's fast look at the last 50 years of American art.

Anyone involved in these productive years of American art will have have fun reading this knowledgable, gossipy, opinionated insider's account of the large and small events of the period.