ART BEYOND ISMS: Masterworks from El Greco to Picasso in the Phillips Collection

London: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd., 2002. First Edition. . Large Softcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 1921, Duncan Phillips opened his home to the public, creating the first museum of modern art in the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Today, the Phillips Collection remains a monument to one man's unique vision and foresight with its carefully selected collection of work where visitors could see "beautifully as true artists see." This book accompanied a 2002 traveling exhibition by the same title to six U.S. museums. It features over sixty of the most important works by European artists in the Phillips Collection, including Cezanne, Renoir, Klee, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Modigliani. An essay on Duncan Phillips, the collector by Eliza Rathbone, the Collections curator and narratives accompanying the full color illustrations of the exhibition by Johanna Halford-MacLeod. Also an exhibition checklist, a chronology and a list of references. First Edition, First Printing. About 8 1/4 x 10 inches, 160 pages including index, in heavy card pictorial covers. The full- color front cover illustration is Van Gogh's "Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles" (1888, detail) and the back cover illustration is Klee's "Cathedral" (1924) shown against a deep blue background. The same illustrations are repeated on the heavy paper dustjacket, the front flap containing information about the museum and the exhibition and the back flap listing other exhibition catalogues available from the publisher. Top half-inch of inside covers and first and last pages of text show very light foxing as does the top edge of the text. O/w covers and text are free of any significant flaws, clean, unmarked and complete. The dustjacket shows only very light, very minor rubbing, no tears, no creasing or bumping. A fine copy of this quite scarce catalogue.