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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Whether "The Golden Age of American Collecting" was Kimball's final choice for a book title is unclear. In a 1946 letter to Roger Butterfield, a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine, Kimball stated that he planned to write a book that would give the "full story of many matters" relating to art collections and museums. His tentative title was "The Art Racket," and he assumed it would be published posthumously. However, papers dated 1951 reveal his ideas for a work entitled...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Based on the undated outline, this version of the "Art Racket" appears to focus on individuals rather than the topics Kimball alluded to in 1946. Although Kimball listed several potential targets in his outline, the only one for which there is a manuscript is Francis Henry Taylor, Kimball's curator of Medieval art from 1927 to 1931, who later became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Based on the undated outline, this version of the "Art Racket" appears to focus on individuals rather than the topics Kimball alluded to in 1946. Although Kimball listed several potential targets in his outline, the only one for which there is a manuscript is Francis Henry Taylor, Kimball's curator of Medieval art from 1927 to 1931, who later became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Based on the undated outline, this version of the "Art Racket" appears to focus on individuals rather than the topics Kimball alluded to in 1946. Although Kimball listed several potential targets in his outline, the only one for which there is a manuscript is Francis Henry Taylor, Kimball's curator of Medieval art from 1927 to 1931, who later became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Based on the undated outline, this version of the "Art Racket" appears to focus on individuals rather than the topics Kimball alluded to in 1946. Although Kimball listed several potential targets in his outline, the only one for which there is a manuscript is Francis Henry Taylor, Kimball's curator of Medieval art from 1927 to 1931, who later became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.