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Evergreen: The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs
James Archer Abbott
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Description for Evergreen: The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs
Hardback. This volume will appeal to art collectors and lovers of historic houses, museums, and libraries, as well as readers fascinated by the intersection of art and architecture, literature and history, and the history of ideas and collecting. Num Pages: 272 pages, 198, 164 colour illustrations, 31 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 229 x 23. .
Evergreen-the long-time home of the Garrett family in north Baltimore-offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture, sculpture, ceramics, and rare books. Acquired by two generations of the prominent Garrett family, self-described collectors by instinct and by education, the assemblage of fine and decorative arts is remarkable in scope and inventiveness. Now part of the Johns Hopkins University, the mansion endures as a rare visual encyclopedia, representative of nearly all major architectural and design movements indicative of America's transition from a predominantly agrarian society ... Read more
Evergreen-the long-time home of the Garrett family in north Baltimore-offers a preeminent example of antebellum-American Italianate architecture. It also houses a remarkably diverse collection of over 50,000 objects, including paintings, furniture, sculpture, ceramics, and rare books. Acquired by two generations of the prominent Garrett family, self-described collectors by instinct and by education, the assemblage of fine and decorative arts is remarkable in scope and inventiveness. Now part of the Johns Hopkins University, the mansion endures as a rare visual encyclopedia, representative of nearly all major architectural and design movements indicative of America's transition from a predominantly agrarian society ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421421698
SKU
V9781421421698
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About James Archer Abbott
James Archer Abbott is Philip Franklin Wagley Director and Curator of Evergreen Museum & Library at Johns Hopkins University. He is the coauthor of Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration. Earle A. Havens is Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at ... Read more
Reviews for Evergreen: The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs
This book takes us inside the home of the Garrett family, which is now a museum and library... Its sumptuous pages give us a glimpse of Evergreen's splendid architectural detail and the family's impressive 20th-century art collection, including the likes of degas and Picasso.
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