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Thomas C. Colt, Jr. - The Man Who Launched the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Susannah Colt

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Description:After three years of work and research, I am proud to announce the completion of my father’s biography, a 400-page opus covering his life up to and including his tenure at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I have faithfully documented my father’s story in the form of your run of the mill, garden variety, biography, but my father’s life was not a run of the mill story. He grew up in turbulent times – the Great War, Prohibition, the roaring 20’s, the 19th Amendment, the Stock Market Crash and Depression, and WWII, to name a few. He also experienced technological innovations, including aviation, moving pictures, automobiles, telecommunications, etc., etc. He was an adventurous soul, living vicariously through his books during his youth, jumping on the aviation bandwagon by joining the Marines and learning to fly in 1929, crossing the Atlantic on steamships several times, first as a scullion and then as a passenger, becoming an Anglophile and dressing the part, wooing women with his excellent dance skills, and getting into typical youthful trouble much to the displeasure of his parents. When he finally settled in Virginia in a very roundabout way, he discovered his experience as an art dealer for two years in New York City enabled him to get his foot in the door of the Virginia art scene, paving the way to a career that would sustain him for 40 years. The road was full of twists and turns encountering serious resistance before he become the first director of the first state-owned museum in the United States at the age of 30 (also the youngest director of the youngest major museum in the country).Part I of the book covers the early life of my father from his birth in 1905 to six years post college. Part II begins with a history of the arts in Virginia and tells the story of how the Virginia museum came into existence. It is at that point that the story of my father and the story of the museum become interwoven and they take off on a fantastic journey, both growing by leaps and bounds. Part III tells the story of that growth, which is only a snapshot of the story of my father and the history of the museum, a museum which is now one of the highest regarded museums in the world; a museum I am proud to say is where it is today because of all the blood, sweat and tears shed by my father during its early days.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thomas C. Colt, Jr. - The Man Who Launched the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. To get started finding Thomas C. Colt, Jr. - The Man Who Launched the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 414

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Susannah Colt

Release: 2021

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Description: After three years of work and research, I am proud to announce the completion of my father’s biography, a 400-page opus covering his life up to and including his tenure at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I have faithfully documented my father’s story in the form of your run of the mill, garden variety, biography, but my father’s life was not a run of the mill story. He grew up in turbulent times – the Great War, Prohibition, the roaring 20’s, the 19th Amendment, the Stock Market Crash and Depression, and WWII, to name a few. He also experienced technological innovations, including aviation, moving pictures, automobiles, telecommunications, etc., etc. He was an adventurous soul, living vicariously through his books during his youth, jumping on the aviation bandwagon by joining the Marines and learning to fly in 1929, crossing the Atlantic on steamships several times, first as a scullion and then as a passenger, becoming an Anglophile and dressing the part, wooing women with his excellent dance skills, and getting into typical youthful trouble much to the displeasure of his parents. When he finally settled in Virginia in a very roundabout way, he discovered his experience as an art dealer for two years in New York City enabled him to get his foot in the door of the Virginia art scene, paving the way to a career that would sustain him for 40 years. The road was full of twists and turns encountering serious resistance before he become the first director of the first state-owned museum in the United States at the age of 30 (also the youngest director of the youngest major museum in the country).Part I of the book covers the early life of my father from his birth in 1905 to six years post college. Part II begins with a history of the arts in Virginia and tells the story of how the Virginia museum came into existence. It is at that point that the story of my father and the story of the museum become interwoven and they take off on a fantastic journey, both growing by leaps and bounds. Part III tells the story of that growth, which is only a snapshot of the story of my father and the history of the museum, a museum which is now one of the highest regarded museums in the world; a museum I am proud to say is where it is today because of all the blood, sweat and tears shed by my father during its early days.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thomas C. Colt, Jr. - The Man Who Launched the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. To get started finding Thomas C. Colt, Jr. - The Man Who Launched the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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