Cover is green with gold lettering on front and the spine. Ecru endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DJ is new. Exhaustively illustrated with 40 color plates and 70 duo-tones. "The collection formed by Coolidge speaks of a remarkable breadth of taste, of a spirit responsive to works of art of all periods, and of visual discrimination of a high order.keen to benefit a wider audience; for years.were on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, and before his death Mr. Coolidge had begun to donate masterpieces.this catalogue.includes works bequeathed to the Museum as well as those that remain in the family". Sections are: Introduction by Peter C. Sutton; Part I: Bequest to the Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings, Decorative Arts and Sculpture; Part II: Works of Art formerly in the Coolidge Collection; Concordance; Index. Paintings range by masters from Andrea del Sarto, through Rubens, Canaletto, to Edgar Degas. Oversized, 4.5#. ; Photographs; 10 1/4 x 10 1/2; 199 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The William Appleton Coolidge Collection
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0878464530
ISBN 13: 9780878464531
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition (?).
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New

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The collection formed by William Appleton Coolidge speaks of a remarkable breadth of taste, of a spirit responsive to works of art of all periods, and of visual discrimination of a high order. Many of the works are intimate in scale, appropriate for domestic contemplation, and it is no surprise that this most unselfish of collectors delighted in sharing his prized possessions with his friends. But he was also keen to benefit a wider audience: for years the finest of them were on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, and before his death Mr. Coolidge had begun to donate masterpieces, including the paintings by Rubens and Signac.
There have been collectors who formed larger and greater collections; however, there were very few who cast their net as broadly as William Coolidge while sustaining such a consistently high level of quality. His catholicity of taste is a characteristic virtue of the Boston past, namely its intellectual curiosity about different times and peoples and its receptivity to good ideas regardless of point or period of origin. There is still much to be learned and enjoyed in such an attitude.

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Peter C. Sutton is currently Senior Director of Old Master Paintings at Christie's, New York.

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