American Louvre: A History of the Renwick Gallery Building

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Author: Charles J. RobertsonCopublisher: D Giles Ltd.Publication Date: 2015Museum: SAAMPages: 108 pp.: ill (23 color, 50 black-and-white)ISBN: 978-1-907804-81-6Softcover Designed by James Renwick Jr. in 1858, the building that houses the Renwick Gallery was the first in the United States conceived expressly as a public art museum. Renwick’s elegant design, modeled on the Louvre in Paris, prompted critics to call the new gallery the “American Louvre.” Written by architectural historian Charles J…