Author: Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach (Fla.)Publisher:
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Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach, Florida ... Presents an Unrestricted Public Auction of Fine Art and Antique Properties from Many Prominent Estates ....
Author: Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach (Fla.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Palm Beach
Author: Richard A. MarconiPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738567495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Palm Beach is known internationally as a winter resort where the wealthy enjoy life in a tropical paradise. More than 100 years ago, Palm Beach was far different from its well-kept beaches, estates, and fabulous Worth Avenue shopping mecca of the 21st century. When the first permanent settlers arrived, they found the area covered by thick jungle that had to be tamed before they could carve out a new life for themselves. The settlers ended up with a paradise, and when Henry Flagler decided to build a grand hotel in Palm Beach, he planted the first seed for the creation of a modern winter retreat for the rich.
The Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach, Florida, Presents at Auction
Author: The Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach, Florida, in Conjunction with the Women's Division Annual Priceless Pathways Event of the Kansas City Museum of History & Science Presents an Unrestricted Pbulic Auction of Fine Art and Antique Property from Many Prominent Estates
Author: The Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Conjuction with Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach, Florida Presents an Unrestricted Public Auction of Fine Art and Antique Property
Author: Trosby Galleries (Palm Beach, Fla.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Dreams
Author: Williams College. Museum of ArtPublisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555952105
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Williams College, in Williamstown, MA, has collected art since the mid-19th century. In this chronological journey through American art in all media, each of 56 highlighted objects from the museum receives a mini-essay of several hundred words, signed by contributors who frequently are the acknowledged experts on particular artists or works. A full factual entry on each work appears at the back of the book, preceded by extremely brief summaries of the acquisitions histories of the overall collection's painting, drawing, sculpture, Williams portraits, prints, photographs, posters, and decorative arts. College alumni donated many items, including collections on Rube Goldberg, Thomas Nast, and the Prendergasts. This is not the definitive book on American art, but it is an excellent survey with many interesting objects not commonly reproduced. For art history collections. 64 colour & 65 b/w illustrations
My Darlings
Author: Grace Mather-SmithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761870849
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
My Darlings is a memoir of the rollicking life and times of the grande dame of Oakland, Florida—from growing up in the frontier town of Denver, to studying voice in the big city of Chicago, to pioneering in the backwoods of central Florida. Grace was born in 1884 in Denver and moved to Chicago around the turn of the century to study voice in hopes of becoming an opera singer. Instead, she married the delightful Charles Frederic Mather-Smith, twenty years her senior, and the newlyweds made their winter home in rural Oakland, Florida, when central Florida was still a primeval jungle teeming with wild animals and exotic flora just beginning to be tamed by homesteading farmers, ranchers, and fishermen. As Grace says, it was the hand of Destiny that led her new husband and her to Oakland, where Grace raised her family, shook up the community, and lived for more than fifty happy years. As recounted in her memoir, Grace was a devoted wife and mother, a pioneer, a community organizer, an opera singer, a midwife, a businesswoman, a philanthropist—and a great beauty whom men found irresistible. Grace was the first woman in Florida to drive a car; the owner of the first telephone and phonograph in Oakland, and of the first bathtub and flushing toilet in central Florida; and the first person to drive a car to the top of Pike’s Peak without a mechanic. Grace’s voice comes across loud and clear in her memoir, which is illustrated with more than 20 family photos. She was flamboyant, theatrical, uninhibited, adventurous, energetic, glamorous, exuberant, unconventional, willful, irrepressible, big-hearted, and generous to a fault. Her memoir quotes family and friends who describe Grace as being “like a thoroughbred horse … always out there in the limelight,” “born for the concert stage and the opera,” and “prone to gallivantin’ around.” She was larger than life—a force of nature—and has been likened to Auntie Mame. As Eve Bacon wrote in her book Oakland: The Early Years, Grace “hit staid little Oakland” like “a social bombshell.”
The Trosby Galleries of Palm Beach, Florida, Announce a Schedule of Nine Major Catalogue Auctions
Author: The Connoisseur
Author: Jekyll Island
Author: Tyler BagwellPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738505725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Since the 1940s, Jekyll Island has gone through a transformation from an exclusive private club where America's wealthiest families vacationed to a state-owned resort enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year. The changes that came to Jekyll brought both disappointments and triumphs, and involved people from all walks of life--the former employees of the Jekyll Island Club who remained after its closing in 1942, the military servicemen who were stationed on the island in the early 1940s, the legislators divided over the State of Georgia's purchase of the island in 1947, and the tourists who continue to enjoy this coastal community into the twenty-first century. Within these pages, the story of Jekyll's transformation unfolds. Historic photographs of the island, its early residents, and devoted beachcombers recall the early days when the island was accessed only by ferry and when the elite club reopened as a hotel. Included are images of the island's continued development, prompted by the 1950 formation of the Jekyll Island Authority, which remains today as the island's governing entity. Hotels, parks, restaurants, golf courses, and a host of other attractions are featured in this unique retrospective.