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Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr. and the Untold Story of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum of Art
Peggy Earle
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Hardcover. The Norfolk museum that would one day bear the Chrysler name was always a good museum of its kind, home to a respectable collection serving a smallish city. This work paints a vivid picture of this provincial museum's transformation into one of the finest art museums on the East Coast. It also delivers a portrait of Walter Chrysler. Num Pages: 160 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; AGC; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
The Norfolk museum that would one day bear the Chrysler name was always a good museum of its kind, home to a respectable collection serving a smallish city. But when Norfolk native Jean Outland married Walter Chrysler, heir to the automobile manufacturing fortune and an avid art collector, the museum found a person with whom its fortunes would be intertwined, sometimes spectacularly, for decades to come. Walter had already established a Chrysler Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but in 1971 - in need of more space and, admittedly, a fresh start - he relocated the operation to Norfolk.The museum that had ... Read more
The Norfolk museum that would one day bear the Chrysler name was always a good museum of its kind, home to a respectable collection serving a smallish city. But when Norfolk native Jean Outland married Walter Chrysler, heir to the automobile manufacturing fortune and an avid art collector, the museum found a person with whom its fortunes would be intertwined, sometimes spectacularly, for decades to come. Walter had already established a Chrysler Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but in 1971 - in need of more space and, admittedly, a fresh start - he relocated the operation to Norfolk.The museum that had ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927183
SKU
V9780813927183
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About Peggy Earle
A New York City native, Peggy Earle lived in Norfolk, Virginia, for thirty years, where she was the book review editor, a librarian, and contributing writer at the Virginian-Pilot. She is also an assemblage artist, illustrator, and painter. She resides in Connecticut.
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