The Art Of Acquiring: A Portrait Of Etta & Claribel Cone

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The sisters who bought modern art before America knew it existed. The Art of Acquiring tells of Etta and Claribel Cone — two Baltimore women who, advised by Gertrude Stein, bought Matisses and Picassos by the roomful when the artists were still starving. Their collection became the crown of the Baltimore Museum of Art and one of the great assemblages in the world.

This is the great American collecting story: the taste, the courage, the sheer accumulation. The Cones bought with their eyes and their hearts, filling apartments with the future of art. Their story is also a women’s story — independence, intellect, and defiance in an age that offered ladies little of each, pursued with quiet ferocity.

For art lovers and museum-goers: the secret history behind the masterpieces. Charming, inspiring, and full of wonderful pictures. The Cones saw it first — this book lets you see through their eyes.

The Sisters Who Brought Modern Art to America

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