Research Catalog

Title

An American odyssey : the Warner collection of American fine and decorative arts, Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama / Tom Armstrong ; essays by Amy Coes, Ella Foshay, and Wendell Garrett ; photography by Lynn Diane DeMarco, Bonnie Morrison, and Paul Rocheleau.

Author

Armstrong, Tom, 1932-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Coes, Amy
• Foshay, Ella M., 1948-
• Garrett, Wendell D.

Description

224 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

"An American Odyssey is the story of Jonathan Westervelt Warner - Jack - entrepreneur, art collector, and philanthropist. The grandson of Herbert Westervelt, founder of the E-Z Opener Bag Company that became Gulf States Paper Corporation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the son of Mildred Westervelt Warner, former president of Gulf States, Jack Warner has kept alive his family's practices of business management and good works. He has also initiated a new tradition: since 1970 he has assembled an exceptional collection of American fine and decorative arts from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries." "Warner's collection responds to his special interests and his fascination with all aspects of America's history and heritage." --Book Jacket.

Alternative Title

Warner collection of American fine and decorative arts, Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Subject

• Warner, Jack > Art collections > Catalogs
• Gulf States Paper Corporation (U.S.) > Art collections > Catalogs
• Art, American > Catalogs
• Art > Private collections > Alabama > Tuscaloosa > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Catalogs
• Catalogs.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: From woods to goods / Tom Armstrong -- Portfolio: The Mildred Warner House -- Introduction: Pater Patriae / Wendell Garrett -- Portfolio: George Washington -- Jonathan Westervelt Warner / Tom Armstrong -- Portfolio: Architecture and gardens -- Art for democracy / Ella Foshay -- Portfolio: Fine arts I -- The Cosmopolitan perspective / Ella Foshey -- Portfolio: Fine arts II -- Neoclassicism in the New Republic / Amy Coes -- Portfolio: Decorative arts -- An American spirit / Wendell Garrett.

ISBN

1580930980

LCCN

^^2001044664

OCLC

• 47825673
• SCSB-10367200

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library