John Ravenal is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Matthew Affron is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia and curator of contemporary art for the University of Virginia Art Museum.

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A New York lawyer with Virginia roots, T. Catesby Jones acquiredan extraordinary collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by somesixty artists working in Paris during the early twentieth century. Jones'scollection of almost three hundred works, divided between two Virginia institutionsafter his death, is reunited here in an illustrated catalogue with a full-colorchecklist accompanied by entries on twenty-four of the artists. Some are thebest-known figures of this crucial era (Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Masson, Lipchitz);others are now less familiar (Lurcat, Bauchant, Marcoussis). Considered together, they provide a comprehensive view of modern art in Paris up to World War II andbring Jones's legacy to a wide audience for the firsttime.
Distributed for the Virginia Museum of FineArts