Frederick Fisher

Hillwood Museum and Gardens: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Art Collector's Personal Museum

Washington D.C. Hillwood Museum and Gardens, 2002.

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Item #5227
ISBN: 0965495892

Paperback
104 pp., illustrated

This book provides the context in which to more fully appreciate Marjorie Merriweather Post, her magnificent collection, and her beautiful estate. Born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1887, the only child of Charles William Post, founder of the coffee substitute Postum and Post Cereals, this beautiful and forward-thinking woman maintained an elegant lifestyle while ever attentive to collecting, business, and philanthropic activities. She developed her signature style during the waning days of America's Gilded Age, carrying it forward to the mid-twentieth century.

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