9781555951351

Book Description: Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1.2 x 9.8 x 12.5 inches. Anna Thomson Dodge (1871-1970), widow of Horace E. Dodge, was heiress to one of America's great automotive fortunes. Over a fifty-year period, she used her resources to gain all of the advantages that money could buy; her most ambitious project was the creation of Rose Terrace, a Louis XVI-style house built in the early 1930s on the shores of Lake St. Clair in Grosse Pointe Farms outside of Detroit. Its focal point was the Music Room, for which Mrs. Dodge assembled one of the most distinguished and extensive groups of eighteenth-century French decorative arts in America. his collection was bequeathed to The Detroit Institute of Arts in 1970, later augmented by additional works acquired at auction and by gift. The Dodge Collection provides a history of Mrs. Dodge's Rose Terrace and the works of art that filled it, a comprehensive catalogue of sixty-eight objects from her bequest (all illustrated in full color), and brief entries (many illustrated) about dozens of additional objects now in the collection. Essays on "Anna Thomson Dodge and the Building of Rose Terrace" and "The Creation of the Dodge Collection" are illustrated with never-before-published photographs of interior and exterior views of this fabled residence. FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal ; This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog highlights one of the premier decorative arts collections, housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Anna Thomson Dodge collection contains a variety of furniture, paintings, ceramics, and other objets d'art originally created for some of Europe's most distinguished royal families. The introduction to the catalog contains a brief account of Dodge's prominence in American society and the arts, as well as the design and construction of her elegant palatial home, Rose Terrace, which was demolished in 1976. The catalog portion of the book organizes the 68 most important items of the collection by medium, related type, and then by the date. A brief biographical sketch is provided for each artist represented, and references and full citations are given for each work. Recommended for all collections focusing on the decorative arts. Bookseller Inventory # 31389

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