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A Guide to the Art Museums of New England

出版	Harcourt, Brace, 1958
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fk0GAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In museums large and small, from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford to the Bowdoin College Museum in Maine, New England possesses a wealth of world art that can stand comparison with the riches of any similar area in Europe. Mr. Faison offers the traveler a key to all these treasures in this engaging guidebook, which covers sixty-one museums and other art collections, many of them in charming, out-of-the-way places. The collections are presented alphabetically by state and by location within the state. Visiting days and hours are specified, and, for the convenience of people traveling by car, each entry is accompanied by a road-map detail. Mr. Faison briefly describes each collection. He then discusses, in a simple and highly illuminating way, the outstanding works of art that the traveler with limited time should see, and also sets them in perspective. In writing, for instance, of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mr. Faison presents a miniature survey of Western art; he provides, as well, a brief but comprehensive sketch of Far Eastern art; and the visitor is thus enabled to see the particular painting or object in its historical and artistic context. This volume is not only an indispensable and practical guidebook; its brilliant text reflects the delight with which the author himself discovered the extent of New England's treasures. More than four hundred works have been selected for discussion. Each is illustrated, on the page where it is described, by a small but clear reproduction.