Monet to Moore1999
The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
by Richard R. Brettell
"One of the most significant - and least studied - forms of postwar art collecting in the United States has been the corporate collection. This book documents one of the most important and widely exhibited of these holdings: the collection of Sara Lee Corporation, fifty-two works selected from the personal collection of Sara Lee's founder Nathan Cummings."--BOOK JACKET.
"With major masterpieces ranging from an 1872 painting by Claude Monet to a 1964 bronze by Henry Moore, the Sara Lee Collection was assembled in 1980, five years before Cummings's death. In 1998 the corporation announced an unprecedented gift of the entire collection to a group of forty art museums, twenty-five in the United States and fifteen in international cities in which Sara Lee Corporation has a major...