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Author:

Mazaroff, Stanley, author.

Title:

A Paris life, a Baltimore treasure : the remarkable lives of George A. Lucas and his art collection / Stanley Mazaroff.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 293 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Lucas, George A.,--1824-1909.
Lucas, George A.,--1824-1909--Art collections.
Art--Collectors and collecting--Paris--Paris--Biography.
Americans--Paris--Paris--Biography.
Baltimore (Md.)--Biography.
Paris (France)--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-283) and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- The cultivation of Lucas -- The wandering road to Paris -- Lucas and Paris in a time of transition -- Lucas and Whistler -- The links to Lucas -- From Ecouen to Barbizon -- M, Eugene, and Maud -- When money is no object -- The Lucas Collection -- The final years -- The terms of Lucas's will -- A collection in search of a home -- The shot across the bow -- The glorification of Lucas -- In Judge Kaplan's court -- Lucas saved -- Postscript.

ISBN:

1421424444
9781421424446

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1007056297

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)