The Clarks of Cooperstown
Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of America's greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, and for decades enemies of each other. He tells the story, as well, of the two generations that preceded theirs, giving us an intimate portrait of one of the least known of America's richest families.He begins with Edward Clark—the brothers' grandfather, who amassed…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-49452-8
- EAN: 9780307494528
- Produktnummer: 15731895
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'779 KB
Über den Autor
Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He has curated retrospectives of the work of Josef Albers and Anni Albers, and is the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He is the author of twelve previous books. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut, and Paris.
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