Highlights 108 masterworks from The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and offers insight into the creation of one of the greatest collections of modern art in the world.

With a new foreword by Dr. Jonathan P. Binstock, Vradenburg Director and CEO, The Phillips Collection, and new photography of the collection.

Collector and visionary Duncan Phillips (1886–1966) played a vital role in introducing contemporary art to America in the early decades of the 20th century. He acquired and exhibited works according to stylistic affinities and continuities, reflecting the connections between various artistic expressions, past and present.

Featuring paintings by impressionists and post-impressionists such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Vuillard; 20th-century modernists Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso; American 19th-century painters Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler; and figures of twentieth-century American modernism such as Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mark Rothko, this book aims to re-create what Phillips considered the “life-enhancing” experience of seeing art in an intimate setting.