Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin, picked by store co-founder, George Cooper
At the beginning of the 20th Century, America was a cultural backwater, with no sense of the art revolution in Europe. This is a sterling thriller about how a scrappy group of modern art lovers, through two world wars, founded the now iconic MOMA and brought Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh and the world of modern art to America. And in the process saved countless works from Nazi hands and established this country as the center of the art world. A nonfiction page turner.
~ George Cooper
“[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.” – The New York Times Book Review