A brief history of the Detroit Museum of Art and its collections : illustrated (1902)
Detroit Museum of Art · Detroit : [The Museum] · leaf 22
Mr. Stearnshave made the Stearns Collection of Oriental Art one of themost famous in the country. August 27th, 1888, by the efforts of Mrs. E. C. Skinnerand Mrs. H. P. Jenkins, aided by sixty-six other ladies andgentlemen, the painting known as the Young Artist, byEllen Baker, was purchased and… … HELEN K. BAKER THE YOUNG ARTIST Purchased by popular subscription r6 DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART collecting. The actual cost of the pictures to Mr. Scripps hadbeen $70,950.84, not reckoning expenses incurred in theircollection. These incidental expenses, of which no accountwas kept, would probably bring…
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