Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art 1928-1943

by Nicholas Fox Weber

Overview

This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and family connections enabled Lincoln Kirstein, Edward M. M. Warburg, Agnes Mongan, James Thrall Soby, and A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr., to introduce the work of Picasso, Balanchine, Calder, and other important artists to the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804154024
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/29/2014
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	398
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

NICHOLAS FOX WEBER was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He is the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of thirteen previous books, among them The Clarks of Cooperstown, Balthus, Patron Saints, and The Art of Babar. He and his wife, the novelist Katharine Weber, live in Bethany, Connecticut, and Paris. They have two daughters.