Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 494 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Prologue: The Navel of the World -- "Boy Dear" -- Trouble with the Dean: harvard, Egypt, and the Sudan -- Darling of the Fogg -- From Harvard to the Land of Steady Habits -- Starting Fires in Hartford -- "Dearest Cunning" -- Innovator and Connoisseur -- Tender Mysteries and "The Ravings of Madmen" -- International Style -- "We've Got to Get Them!" -- Picasso and the Saints -- "Nobody's Business" -- "Number One!" -- Fusion of the Arts -- After the Ball -- Turning Awry -- The Baroque and the Big Top -- Home to Helen. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-472) and index. |
Subject |
Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957.
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
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Art museum directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Added Author |
Gaddis, Eugene R., 1947-
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ISBN |
0394587774 |
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