Patron saints : five rebels who opened America to a new art, 1928-1943

This lively work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons who, in the last 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. A combination of wealth, Harvard education privilege, and family connections enabled Lincoln Kirstein, Edward M. M. Warburg, Agnes Mongan, James Thrall Soby, and A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr., to introduce the work of Picasso, Balanchine, Calder, and other important artists to the United States. A work of cultural history ; follows the lives of five pioneering art patrons who, in the late 1920s and the 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America