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Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art

By (author) Jennifer Farrell, Contributions by Thomas Crow, Contributions by Serge Guilbaut, Contributions by Jan Howard, Contributions by Robert Storr, Contributions by Judith Tannenbaum

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Richard Brown Baker (1912â€“2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors toÂ embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.Â He eventually amassed a collectionÂ of more than 1,600 works from the postwar period,Â including works by such groundbreakingÂ American artistsÂ as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist, as well as European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, and Kurt Schwitters.Â Baker bequeathed the majority of his collection to the Yale University Art Gallery, and the balance to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Highlighting 130 works, this is the first complete history of Baker's important collection. Essays by renowned art historiansÂ contextualize each of the five decades of Baker's collecting efforts, while entries on individual artists illustrate the remarkable scope of Baker's holdings. Throughout the publication, firsthand accounts from Baker's extensive personal journals describe his collecting activities within the dynamic New York art scene of the day. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery