The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307263479 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent biography" according to SusieQ. It would be facile to describe Alfred, Sterling, or Stephen Clark just as "wealthy deadbeats". Look at all they accomplished! Directly or indirectly, members of this family are responsible for establishing three art museums (The Clark in Williamstown, MA; The Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and The Cloisters), as well as con. "Disappointing account of a fascinating family." according to So many books, so little time. The writer had a ready -made fascinating subject in the Clark family, but somehow he managed to make the book boring! I did not have any real sense of the characters humanity. In fact much of what he wrote was contradictatory.His viewpoint seemed to change from chapter to chapter.It was also repetitive. Did we need severa. Not the book for me It's an interesting premise -- a collective history focusing on the heirs of the Singer Company fortune. However, the author gets too involved in presenting inconsequential minutiae that I decided I could find better ways to spend my time and I stopped reading the book about halfway through.
. Stephen, a founder of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., was reserved and dour, yet adventurous as an art collector, buying the works of avant-garde artists like Van Gogh, Picasso and Brancusi. His son Alfred used his inheritance to support the sculptor George Grey Barnard and the piano prodigy Josef Hofmann. Roosevelt, whose policies he believed were destroying America's capitalist economy. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Sterling and Stephen were Alfred's sons. All rights reserved
Alfred was a man with a passion for art and charity, which he passed on to his four sons, in particular Sterling and Stephen Clark.Sterling, the second-oldest, buccaneering and controversial, loved impressionism, created his own museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts—and shocked his family by marrying an actress from the Comédie Française. An image of propriety—good husband, father of four—in Europe, he led a secret homosexual life. We are told what really happened and why—and who in American politics was implicated but never prosecuted.Sterling’s brother—Stephen—self-effacing and responsible—became chairman and president of the Museum of Modern Art and gave that institution its first painting, Edward Hopper’s House by the Railroad. Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of Americ