The Private Museums – Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis After roaming the world for two years and...
The Private Museums
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Museo Dolores Olmedo
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Dolores Olmedo Patino was an exceptional Mexican woman who in the 1920s and 30s forged a lucrative career as General...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Berggruen Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Heinz Berggruen, born in Berlin, Germany in 1914, began his working career as a journalist at the Frankfurter Zeitung. ...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Frick Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
Henry Clay Frick began his adult career as a retail salesman and bookkeeper in a small town outside...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Clyfford Still Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
Although one of the lesser known American Abstract Expressionist painters, it was, in fact, Clyfford Still who was first among...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Whitney
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
To call “The Whitney”, in mid-town Detroit, a private museum is not that great a stretch. The upscale restaurant is...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
David Lloyd Kreeger was a rare combination of entrepreneur, artist, and lover of the arts. His entrepreneurship as top...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – George Washington’s Mount Vernon
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Sailing along the Potomac River to George Washington’s beloved Georgian plantation, Mount Vernon, on Spirit Cruises’ “Spirit...
THE PRIVATE MUSEUMS – The Wallace Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
The building in which a private collection is housed is often as artistically appealing as the artifacts within it. Such...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Andy Warhol Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was home turf for an extraordinary group of people: billionaires H.J. Heinz, H.C. Frick, the...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Nasher Sculpture Center
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Raymond D. Nasher was a real estate developer, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, banker and part...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Bata Shoe Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
The name Bata has been synonymous with shoes since Tomas Bata began manufacturing them in 1894 in Zlin, a town...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Barnes Foundation
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Dr. Albert C. Barnes was a Renaissance man: physician, chemist, businessman, art collector, prolific writer. Born in Philadelphia...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Henry Ford
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
In spite of limitless eccentricities and truly irrational ideas, such as establishing a rubber plantation in Brazil’s...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Sifang Art Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
While governance of the Peoples’ Republic of China might seem restrictive to Westerners, the accumulation of great wealth by members of...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
He loved sculpture, she loved gardens and since they loved each other, Frederik Meijer, the billionaire discount supermarket and gas...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Museo Dolores Olmedo
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Dolores Olmedo Patino was an exceptional Mexican woman who in the 1920s and 30s forged a lucrative career as General...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Berggruen Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
Heinz Berggruen, born in Berlin, Germany in 1914, began his working career as a journalist at the Frankfurter Zeitung. ...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Frick Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
Henry Clay Frick began his adult career as a retail salesman and bookkeeper in a small town outside...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Clyfford Still Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
Although one of the lesser known American Abstract Expressionist painters, it was, in fact, Clyfford Still who was first among...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Whitney
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
To call “The Whitney”, in mid-town Detroit, a private museum is not that great a stretch. The upscale restaurant is...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
David Lloyd Kreeger was a rare combination of entrepreneur, artist, and lover of the arts. His entrepreneurship as top...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – George Washington’s Mount Vernon
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Sailing along the Potomac River to George Washington’s beloved Georgian plantation, Mount Vernon, on Spirit Cruises’ “Spirit...
THE PRIVATE MUSEUMS – The Wallace Collection
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
The building in which a private collection is housed is often as artistically appealing as the artifacts within it. Such...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Andy Warhol Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was home turf for an extraordinary group of people: billionaires H.J. Heinz, H.C. Frick, the...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Nasher Sculpture Center
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Raymond D. Nasher was a real estate developer, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, banker and part...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Bata Shoe Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
The name Bata has been synonymous with shoes since Tomas Bata began manufacturing them in 1894 in Zlin, a town...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Barnes Foundation
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
Dr. Albert C. Barnes was a Renaissance man: physician, chemist, businessman, art collector, prolific writer. Born in Philadelphia...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Henry Ford
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada
In spite of limitless eccentricities and truly irrational ideas, such as establishing a rubber plantation in Brazil’s...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Sifang Art Museum
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto - Canada
While governance of the Peoples’ Republic of China might seem restrictive to Westerners, the accumulation of great wealth by members of...
JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto – Canada
He loved sculpture, she loved gardens and since they loved each other, Frederik Meijer, the billionaire discount supermarket and gas...