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Corporate Author Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Title Handbook of the collections / Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Imprint Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art, ©1995.

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 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  708.148 PHILADELPHIA    Check Shelf
Description 359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This first comprehensive handbook of the Museum presents over four hundred masterpieces from its encyclopedic collections of Asian art; costume and textiles; European decorative arts (including arms and armor); European painting and sculpture; prints, drawings, and photographs; American art; twentieth-century art, and the art of Africa and Mexico. Each work is illustrated in full color and is accompanied by a short didactic text contributed by Museum curators. Introductory essays describes the formation of the various departments of the Museum."--Amazon.
Contents Asian art -- Costume and textiles -- European decorative arts and arms and armor -- European painting and sculpture before 1900, including the John G. Johnson collection -- Prints, drawings, and photographs -- American art -- Twentieth-century art -- Special collections -- Publications about the museum -- Index of artists and makers.
Subject Art -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Catalogs.
Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Catalogs.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. (OCoLC)fst00529392
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. (OCoLC)fst01204170
Genre/Form Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
Other Form: Online version: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Handbook of the collections. Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art, ©1995 (OCoLC)606154273
ISBN 0876330960 (alk. paper)
9780876330968 (alk. paper)
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