The Private Museums

JL Exclusive – The Private Museums – Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis

By Julie Rekai Rickerd
Location: Toronto — Canada

            The Private Museums – Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis       After roaming the world for two years and...

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...

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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...

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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...

          He loved sculpture, she loved gardens and since they loved each other, Frederik Meijer, the billionaire discount supermarket and gas...