Surrealism and Modernism: From the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [Hardcover] Zafran, Eric and Paret, Paul

The Wadsworth Atheneums remarkable collection of twentiethcentury art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators This beautiful book showcases the museums holdings and provides fascinating details about their acquisitionIn 1931, the famed Chick Austin, director of the Atheneum from 1929 to 1944, purchased works by Dal, Calder, Picasso, Ernst, and others Austins successor, Charles Cunningham, added works by Stanley Spencer, Henry ISBN10: 0300102038 ISBN13: 9780300102031 Material Type: hardcover