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100 1 $aWeber, Nicholas Fox,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83158731
245 14 $aThe Clarks of Cooperstown :$btheir Singer sewing machine fortune, their great and influential art collections, their forty-year feud /$cNicholas Fox Weber.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2007.
300 $axvii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 399-402) and index.
520 1 $a"Nicholas Fox Weber gives us the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark - two of America's greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, and for decades enemies of each other. He tells the story, as well, of the two generations that preceded theirs, giving us an intimate portrait of one of the least known of America's richest families." "He begins with Edward Clark - the brothers' grandfather, who amassed the Clark fortune in the late-nineteenth century - a man with nerves of steel; a Sunday school teacher who became the business partner of the wild inventor and genius Isaac Merritt Singer. And, by the turn of the twentieth century, was the major stockholder of the Singer Manufacturing Company." "We follow Edward's rise as a real estate wizard making headlines in 1880 when he commissioned Manhattan's first luxury apartment building. The house was called "Clark's Folly"; today it's known as the Dakota." "We see Clark's son - Alfred - enigmatic and famously reclusive; at thirty-eight he inherited $50 million and became one of the country's richest men. An image of propriety - good husband, father of four - in Europe, he led a secret homosexual life. Alfred was a man with a passion for art and charity, which he passed on to his four sons, in particular Sterling and Stephen Clark." "Sterling, the second-oldest, buccaneering and controversial, loved impressionism, created his own museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts - and shocked his family by marrying an actress from the Comedie Franchise. Together the Sterling Clarks collected thousands of paintings and bred racehorses." "Sterling's brother - Stephen - self-effacing and responsible - became chairman and president of the Museum of Modern Art and gave that institution its first painting, Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad. Thirteen years later, in an act that provoked intense controversy, Stephen dismissed the museum's visionary founding director, Alfred Barr, who for more than a decade had single-handedly established the collection and exhibition programs that determined how the art of the twentieth century was regarded."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aClark, Robert Sterling,$d1877-1956.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065870
650 0 $aArt$xCollectors and collecting$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113949
600 10 $aClark, Stephen Carlton,$d1882-1960.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2005024848
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852 00 $boff,glx$hN5220.C63$iW43 2007