100 best paintings in New York.9781566566964 100 best paintings in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Deanna Macdonald and Geoffrey Smith Geoffrey Smith (1943, Michigan — ) is a radio presenter, author and former jazz percussionist currently working in the UK. Smith is the regular host of BBC Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests and also hosts other programmes on the network. . Interlink INTERLINK - A commercial product comprising hardware and software for file transfer between IBM and VAX computers. Publishing Group 2008 249 pages $22.00 Paperback ND160 This compact book (it measures 5.25x9.25"), presents 100 paintings chosen from nine of the big museums in New York the Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. Arnold L. Lehman is the museum's Director. , the Cloisters, the Frick Collection, Guggenheim, Hispanic Society of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Neue Galerie, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). . Reproductions are in color but are quite small (typically in a three or four-inch portion of the page). Each is thoroughly discussed and described in a couple pages of text, and biographical timelines of the painters and a brief listing of contemporary works are included. Information about the museums is also included (hours, admission, location and access). This is a handy reference, or souvenir, for tourists and others who want a taste of the Big Apple's art on their bookshelf. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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