Get There First. Decide Promptly - The Richard own Baker Collection of Postwar Art

by Jennifer Farrell

Pub 2012 261 in Yale University Press. Richard own Baker (1912-2002) began a collecting works by contrasting emerging artists in the 1940s. becoming one of the first collectors toemace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.He eventually amassed a collectionof more than 1.600 works from the postwar period. including works by such groundeakingAmerican artistsas Jean-Michel Basquiat. Chuck Close. Roy Lichtenstein. Robert Morris. Jackson Pollock. Robert Rauschenberg. and James Rosenquist. as well as European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri. Jean Dubuffet. Georges Mathieu. and Kurt Schwitters. Baker bequeathed the majority of his collection to the Yale University Art Gallery. and the balance to the Museum of Art. Rhode Island School of Design. Highlighting 130 works. this is the first complete history of Baker's import...

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First published January 10, 2012