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Hearst the Collector - Hardcover

Levkoff, Mary L.; Los Angeles County Museum Of Art

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Synopsis

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was one of the most famous men in America in the first half of the 20th century. His life as a newspaper magnate and politician was satirized in Orson Welles€™s Citizen Kane, and his home in San Simeon, California, is still one of the most visited house museums in the country.  Hearst the Collector explores another facet of his extraordinary life and notoriety: his phenomenal art collection. During the 1920s and 1930s, he amassed the largest private collections of tapestries, antiquities, silver, and arms and armor of his time. His collection

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About the Author

Mary Levkoff is a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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