Art in our Time: A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art
Hardcover
2004 · New York
by Bee, Harriet and Michelle Elligott (editors)
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Hardcover. VG. Rust orange cloth, red & BW illus. dust jacket, 256 pp., 385 BW illus., 171 color illus., weighs 4.25 lbs. "Chronicles the Museum's story from its opening ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art." (back cover). (Inventory #: 145915)