Modernism and Memory: Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting

This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker’s collection of 20th—century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester in1914 and emigrated to the United States during the Blitz, was an avid and daring collector of paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Keen to support artists whose reputations were still emerging, and loyal to no single school or style, she developed a unique and impressively diverse collection....