Description
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 This new guide also features previously unpublished images of the museum's architecture by Louis I. Kahn and Renzo Piano.
Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300266702
Author Eric M Lee
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press