Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur / Allen Forte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forte, Allen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969.

Du Pont, Henry Francis.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Art--Collectors and collecting--United States--Biography.

Art.

Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.

Fathers and daughters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

World renowned for its vast woodland gardens, its 175-room house, and its unrivaled collection of American decorative arts, Winterthur in Delaware is today among the most beloved museums in the United States. In its earlier days Winterthur was the family home where Ruth du Pont Lord grew up and where her father, Henry F. du Pont (1880-1969), envisioned and then brought to fruition his great museum of Americana.In this memoir, Ruth Lord engagingly describes the development of Henry F. du Pont from a shy, lonely child, a seemingly hopeless student who had bad times at school, to a man who went on to achieve singular distinction in three disparate fields-as art connoisseur, horticulturist, and eminent cattle breeder. Based on her personal experience, and on extraordinary family archives, the author provides a behind-the-scenes view of the legendary lifestyle of the du Pont family, brings to life other family members, including her brilliant mother and irrepressible aunt, Louise Crowninshield, and tells of her father's many additional activities, which culminated in his leadership role in Jacqueline Kennedy's White House restoration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1. The Golf Cottage

Chapter 2. Earlier Generations

Chapter 3. Grandparents and Their Contemporaries

Chapter 4. The Colonel

Chapter 5. Early Childhood

Chapter 6. Groton

Chapter 7. Harvard

Chapter 8. Finding Himself

Chapter 9. Ruth

Chapter 10. Early Married Life

Chapter 11. Times of Crisis

Chapter 12. A Child's Perspective

Chapter 13. Louise

Chapter 14. Parties and Food

Chapter 15. Harry & Ruth

Chapter 16. Money

Chapter 17. A Passion to Collect

Chapter 18. The Masterpiece Within

Chapter 19. The Museum Opens

Chapter 20. Private and Public

Chapter 21. The Ninth Decade

Chapter 22. Afterthoughts

Appendixes

Abbreviations

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300185577

030018557X

OCLC:

1024051749