Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art
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by Avis Berman
A champion of artists, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a pivotal influence on the way American art has been perceived and received, Juliana Force was a creative and flamboyant personality who dominated the New York art world for decades. Yet her life, an American success story of the most classic type, has never been chronicled. In this authoritative biography, Avis Berman focuses long-overdue attention on a dynamic woman who claimed as her raison d'etre the very development of American art, with the founding of the Whitney Museum of American Art, along with Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 572 pages. Atheneum, 1990.
Members' price $26.95
A champion of artists, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a pivotal influence on the way American art has been perceived and received, Juliana Force was a creative and flamboyant personality who dominated the New York art world for decades. Yet her life, an American success story of the most classic type, has never been chronicled. In this authoritative biography, Avis Berman focuses long-overdue attention on a dynamic woman who claimed as her raison d'etre the very development of American art, with the founding of the Whitney Museum of American Art, along with Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 572 pages. Atheneum, 1990.
Members' price $26.95
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