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Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.

05/2021 | 1418 | 163

Pages: 480-481

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Reviewer:

Sudhalter, Adrian (Sudhalter, Adrian )

Subjects

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Walter C. / Arensberg, Louise S.

museums and institutions:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States

places:

Los Angeles

subjects:

Collections, Private / Collecting / Collectors / Modern art / Modernism / Surrealism

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Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. By Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman and Ellen Hoobler. 448 pp. incl. 103 col. + 227 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2020), 50. ISBN 978–1–60606–666–9. | :

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Attributed works:

8. Photograph of the dining room at 7065 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, showing works by Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee among others, c.January 1951, by Floyd Faxon. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives, Arensberg Archives).

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The Arensberg Collection for Philadelphia

11/1954 | 620 | 96

Pages: 350+352-353

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Author:

Goldwater, Robert (Goldwater, Robert)

Subjects

artists:

Brancusi, Constantin

artists:

Duchamp, Marcel

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Louise S.

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Walter C.

dates:

1950-1959

museums and institutions:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States

places:

United States / Philadelphia

subjects:

Art museums / Collections, Private

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Gifts

subjects:

French painting / Surrealism / Avant-garde

Illustrations

Attributed works:

22. Penguins, by Brancusi. 1914. Marble. (Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art.)

Non-western art unattributed:

23. Bird Pecking a Human Skull. Maya, Post-Classical Period. (Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art.)

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