Get there first, decide promptly : the Richard Brown Baker collection of postwar art

Publication Data

• Title Get there first, decide promptly : the Richard Brown Baker collection of postwar art
• Alternative Title Richard Brown Baker collection of postwar art
• Contributors Jennifer Farrell, Thomas E. Crow, Agnes Berecz, Elise K. Kenney, Elise K. Kenney
• Publisher Yale University Art Gallery
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location New Haven Conn.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Includes index.

Contents

Introduction / Jennifer Farrell
Collecting bohemia in post-World War II New York : the Richard Brown Baker collection / Serge Guilbaut
The onset of the 1960s in the collecting life of Richard Brown Baker : without the taking of risks, a great collection is not formed / Thomas Crow
A man about town / Robert Storr
A maverick collector for the 1980s / Jan Howard
Richard Brown Baker in the 1990s : portrait of an eclectic collector / Judith Tannenbaum
Artist entries
Chronology / Elise Kenney
List of artists in the Richard Brown Baker collection.

Topics

• Baker, Richard Brown :: Art collections :: Catalogs
• Art :: Private collections :: United States :: Catalogs
• United States

Get there first, decide promptly : the Richard Brown Baker collection of postwar art. ISBN 9780300153026. Published by Yale University Art Gallery in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.