Eugene R Gaddis: 1 book
Magician of the Modern
Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance...
