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First published in 2014, a New York Times Bestseller Full of observations that range from social change in Boston during the '60s to the daunting challenges of museum financing, and the changing relationship between directors and their boards A unique inside look at the rise and fall of the leader of a major cultural institution Strong New England interest Simultaneous publication with In the Company of Art: A Museum Director's Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone

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9781567926736

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Praise for The Boston Raphael “Perhaps the most exciting book on the art world since Jonathan Harr’s The Lost Painting.”—The Boston Globe “In the compelling story of her father, Perry Rathbone, and the years when he was the elegant and revolutionary director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Belinda Rathbone evokes our country’s most glamorous years… The Boston Raphael is a combination of personal memoir and rich, deliciously detailed history that will keep you turning the pages.”—Susan Cheever “In this fascinating book about a watershed moment in the culture of America’s art museums, Rathbone (Walker Evans) considers her father Perry Rathbone’s directorship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) . . . [Rathbone’s] book sheds light on museology of the present as well as of the past.”—Publishers Weekly

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Belinda Rathbone is a biographer and historian who has written widely on 20th-century American art and photography. In addition to The Boston Raphael, she is the author of Walker Evans: A Biography, George Rickey: A Life in Balance, a memoir, The Guynd, and edited the forthcoming, In the Company of Art: A Museum Director's Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone.

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