Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss were consummate collectors and
patrons. After purchasing Dumbarton Oaks in 1920, they
significantly redesigned the house and its interiors, built
important new structures, added over fifty acres of planned
gardens, hosted important musical evenings and intellectual
discussions in their Music Room, and acquired a world-class art
collection and library.
The illustrated essays in this volume reveal how the Blisses
wide-ranging interests in art, music, gardens, architecture, and
interior design resulted in the creation of the Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection. Their collections of Byzantine and
Pre-Columbian art and rare garden books and drawings are examined
by Robert Nelson, Julie Jones, and Therese O Malley, respectively.
James Carder provides the Blisses biography and discusses their
patronage of various architects, including Philip Johnson, and the
interior designer Armand Albert Rateau. The Blisses collaboration
with Beatrix Farrand on the creation of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens
is recounted by Robin Karson, and their commission of Igor
Stravinsky s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and its premiere by Nadia
Boulanger is examined by Jeanice Brooks. The volume demonstrates
that every aspect of the Blisses collecting and patronage had a
place in the creation of what they came to call their home of the
humanities.
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