ISBN: HB: 9780300266702
November 2022
328 pp.
30,4x26,6 cm
280 colour and black&white illus.
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Kimbell Art Museum
Masterworks from the Collection
A handsome coffee table guide to the celebrated collection of the Kimbell Art Museum.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, this deluxe volume showcases its world-renowned collection. The book includes engaging texts by Kimbell curators accompanied by new, full-color photographs of more than 250 works from antiquity to the twentieth century. A jewel among American museums, the Kimbell possesses European masterpieces by artists such as Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Diego Velazquez, elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse; important collections of Egyptian and classical antiquities; and outstanding works from Asia, Africa, and the ancient Americas. This new guide also features previously unpublished images of the museum's architecture by Louis I. Kahn and Renzo Piano.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, this deluxe volume showcases its world-renowned collection. The book includes engaging texts by Kimbell curators accompanied by new, full-color photographs of more than 250 works from antiquity to the twentieth century. A jewel among American museums, the Kimbell possesses European masterpieces by artists such as Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Diego Velazquez, elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse; important collections of Egyptian and classical antiquities; and outstanding works from Asia, Africa, and the ancient Americas. This new guide also features previously unpublished images of the museum's architecture by Louis I. Kahn and Renzo Piano.
About the author
Eric M. Lee is the director, George T. M. Shackelford is the deputy director, Jennifer Casler Price is the curator of Asian, African, and ancient American art, and Nancy E. Edwards is the curator of European art, all at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.