Art at the Ocean House: the Good Life Through the Artist’s Eye

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The Ocean House, a Victorian grand hotel in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, has a collection of over 250 original works of art including illustration art and paintings by Ludwig Bemelmans, Garrett Price, James Montgomery Flagg, Konstantin Rudakov, Leon Bakst, Oscar Fabres, Jessie Gillespie and many others. Over fifty of the celebrity self-portraits collected by Burt Britton are here, including Herbie Hancock, Gloria Steinem and Tom Wolfe. There is also a large group of fashion studies done in Manchester, Vermont in the 1890s. This catalog reproduces all in color, with essays, notes and bibliography.