Solitaire depuis l'enfance en raison de sa petite taille, Andrew est un créateur de poupées reconnu. Suite à une petite annonce, il entame une correspondance avec Bramber Winters, une amatrice de poupées qui travaille dans un établissement psychiatrique des Cornouailles, autour de l'oeuvre et de la personnalité d'Ewa Chaplin, une créatrice polonaise. Un jour, sans prévenir, Andrew lui rend visite. …

22nd Edition of Friedberg's Paper Money of the United States.
In 1953, the late Robert Friedberg (1912-1963) broke new ground when the Treasury Department granted permission for photographs of American paper money to be printed for the first time. The current edition's 328 pages feature notes from America's greatest currency collections, as well as most of the greatest rarities, all reproduced in color. …

Une étude sur les caractéristiques de la création, de la réception et de la diffusion de l'art contemporain, qui renforcent sa place à part au sein des arts. …

The Metropolitan Museum began acquiring American drawings and watercolors in 1880, just ten years after its founding. Since then it has amassed more than 1,500 works executed by American artists during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in watercolor, pastel, chalk, ink, graphite, gouache, and charcoal. Roughly a third of the collection is by John Singer Sargent and was published as a single volume in 2000. …

The celebrated expatriate painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and his heirs enjoyed a cordial relationship with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In consequence, the museum has an unparalleled collection of Sargent's works, in particular his drawings and watercolors, which are all presented in this comprehensive volume. …

This catalogue tries to record and thus to preserve an aspect of life and culture in New York that is fast vanishing. Most great works of art are now in educational institutions, but those still in private collections, when assembled with love and understanding and arranged in harmonious surroundings, take on a living quality and an intimate appeal that they lose in a museum. …