Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections

by Philadelphia Museum of Art (Editor), Sherry Babbitt (Editor)

This is the first comprehensive handbook to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, its more than four hundred color illustrations both presenting masterpieces from all areas of the collections d suggesting the Museum's strengths, idiosyncrasies, and distinguishing features.

Genres: Art, Reference

359 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Beth Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved diving into our amazing museums collection and history. I have flagged a bunch of pages and will structure my next visits around seeing some key pieces.

[James Wilt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this as much as I loved visiting the actual Museum.

[fried.rambutans · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the catalog of the museum made famous by Rocky running up and down its front steps. The museum has a gorgeous collection and the handbook makes a nice souvenir for anyone who has ever visited it but due to time limit only get to see some part of the museum grounds.



When I went there, I saw works by Degas, Van Gogh (Sunflower!) and Rodin, but if you browse the book, you'll find so much more. As a rule of thumb, whenever I visit a museum I always ask for the softbound cover of its catalog because most of the time you only have less than 2 hours to tour the building!

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice little snippets running the history of art. Great collection of a great collection.