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Book The Bayou Bend Collection

Download or read book The Bayou Bend Collection written by David B. Warren and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bayou Bend Collection   a Gift of Thomas Chippendale s Director

Download or read book The Bayou Bend Collection a Gift of Thomas Chippendale s Director written by David B. Warren and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Houston, Texas. Museum of Fine Arts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Houston, Texas. Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin   The Museum of Fine Arts  Houston

Download or read book Bulletin The Museum of Fine Arts Houston written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some volumes include annual reports.

Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some volumes include annual reports.

Book Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some volumes include annual reports.

Book America s Treasures at Bayou Bend

Download or read book America s Treasures at Bayou Bend written by Michael Kevin Brown and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in Houston, Texas, houses one of the world's great collections of American furniture, paintings and decorative arts. The collection is displayed in the historic residence of Texas philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975). In

Book Old Masters  New World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia Saltzman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780670018314
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Old Masters New World written by Cynthia Saltzman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SALTZMAN/OLD MASTERS; NEW WORLD

Book A Permanent Legacy

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  • Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book A Permanent Legacy written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates one of America's great museums.

Book The Magazine Antiques

Download or read book The Magazine Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Deaf Artist in Early America

Download or read book A Deaf Artist in Early America written by Harlan Lane and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brewster Jr. (1766-1854) was one of the most prominent early American portrait painters. His hauntingly beautiful portraits have a directness and intensity of vision that were rarely equaled, as the images in this book attest. Brewster's portraits have sold astonishingly well at auction, and his work is featured in the collections of prestigious museums, yet curiously little has been written about the life of this deaf artist. Traveling the New England coast to paint the portraits of the merchant class that arose after the Revolution, he lived precisely when a Deaf-World-with its own language, social institutions, and culture-was forming. Harlan Lane, award-winning historian of the Deaf, argues that deaf people are often visually gifted, and that Brewster, as a deaf artist, is part of a long and continuing distinguished tradition. Lane's unprecedented biography both vividly and comprehensively explores Brewster's worlds: he was a seventh-generation descendant of William Brewster, who led the Pilgrims on the Mayflower voyage; he was a member of the Federalist elite; a Deaf man; and, finally, an artist. In 1817, at the age of fifty-one, Brewster attended the first school for the Deaf in America, the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf & Dumb Persons. It's extraordinary to imagine that this was the first time he experienced fluent conversation and real social and intellectual exchange. Yet, as Lane notes, Brewster's ambivalence about this minority reflects the difficult choices confronting many Deaf people, then and now. Including little-known information on the French roots of the American Deaf-World; the Deaf communities of Martha's Vineyard, Maine, and New Hampshire in the nineteenth century; and on contemporary Deaf art, A Deaf Artist in Early America provides a multifaceted glimpse of Brewster, New England history, and the distinctive culture, language, and social institutions of the Deaf in America.

Book The Hogg Family and Houston

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  • Author : Kate Sayen Kirkland
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2012-09-21
  • ISBN : 0292748469
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book The Hogg Family and Houston written by Kate Sayen Kirkland and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians. As civic activists, they espoused contested causes like city planning and mental health care. As volunteers, they inspired others to support social service, educational, and cultural programs. As philanthropic entrepreneurs, they built institutions that have long outlived them: the Houston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Park, and the Hogg Foundation. The Hoggs had a vision of Houston as a great city—a place that supports access to parklands, music, and art; nurtures knowledge of the "American heritage which unites us"; and provides social service and mental health care assistance. This vision links them to generations of American idealists who advanced a moral response to change. Based on extensive archival sources, The Hogg Family and Houston explains the impact of Hogg family philanthropy for the first time. This study explores how individual ideals and actions influence community development and nurture humanitarian values. It examines how philanthropists and volunteers mold Houston's traditions and mobilize allies to meet civic goals. It argues that Houston's generous citizens have long believed that innovative cultural achievement must balance aggressive economic expansion.

Book Conducting a Successful Annual Giving Program

Download or read book Conducting a Successful Annual Giving Program written by Kent E. Dove and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-07-16 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout the book, the authors address the key components of an annual giving program--including telemarketing, direct mail, special events, personal solicitation and matching gifts--and reveal how to integrate each component of the annual giving program into a coherent, fluid fundraising plan"--Publisher website (April 2007).

Book American Material Culture and the Texas Experience

Download or read book American Material Culture and the Texas Experience written by Bayou Bend Collection and published by David B. Warren Symposium. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, established the biennial David B. Warren Symposium, "American Material Culture and the Texas Experience," to honor Bayou Bend's founding director emeritus. Each volume presents five papers from the symposium. Five distinguished scholars place the pre-1900 material culture of Texas, the lower South, and the Southwest within a national and international context."--Provided by publisher.

Book Pleasant Bend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Worrall
  • Publisher : Dan Michael Worrall
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0982599625
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Pleasant Bend written by Dan Worrall and published by Dan Michael Worrall. This book was released on 2016 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.

Book Hockney Van Gogh

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  • Author : Hans den Hartog Jager
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780500239971
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hockney Van Gogh written by Hans den Hartog Jager and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parallel look at Hockney and Van Gogh's love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings

Book Ima Hogg

    Book Details:
  • Author : David B. Warren
  • Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780300222975
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ima Hogg written by David B. Warren and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This engaging biography paints an intimate portrait of Ima Hogg (1882-1975), a philanthropist who left her mark on Texas through her dedicated support of the arts, education, and mental health"--