John Ringling: Dreamer, Builder, Collector

Legacy of the Circus King

Mark Ormand, Project Director & Editor

Aaron De Groft, Project Coordinator & Editor

Gene Ray, Editor

 

Published in conjunction with the Exhibition

John Ringling: Dreamer - Builder – Collector

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

State Art Museum of Florida

 

This interesting title chronicles the genesis of a significant art collection and the Florentine-style villa in Sarasota where it is housed. The proprietor of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus, John Ringling (1866-1936) was "the King of the Big Top" and a multimillionaire to boot. With his wife, Mabel, he developed a fervent interest in accumulating European works of art that reflected their eclectic tastes. Despite his tent-show roots, Ringling was no rube or dilettante, and in a few short years he assembled the largest grouping of Italian Baroque paintings in the United States. Among many other treasures, the Ringling Museum (now the State Art Museum of Florida) boasts an elaborately symbolic Lucas Cranach panel, one of Franz Hals's most important portraits, and Thomas Gainsborough's largest canvas.

This soft cover volume is in excellent, like new, condition.  The cover is clean with very  minor wear along the edges.  The binding is tight with no loose pages.  The pages themselves are clean with vibrant photographs and no rips, tears, creases, notes, or highlighting.

 

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