Eminent Moderns: Some Tenacious Patrons of Modernism in America

Eminent Moderns: Some Tenacious Patrons of Modernism in America with Nicholas Fox Weber

In the late 1920s and early 30s, three Harvard undergraduates got their friends and family members to lend masterpieces for a show that helped pave the way for the founding of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They helped George Balanchine start a ballet company, organized The Paper Ball, and transformed their world with lively, engaging, groundbreaking art. Enjoy an engaging account of the flowering of modernism in America and of the tenacious women and men who opened American culture to new ways of seeing.