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July 24, 2008
Patricia Vigderman The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner Louisville: Sarabande, 2007. 151 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9781932511437)
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008. 352 pp.; 48 color ills.; 58 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780810124813)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.72

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Collectors, it sometimes seems, are a necessary evil. Artists create, and we art writers explain the significance of what they make. But collectors, who usually are privileged people, mostly only pick up the check. Too often they treat art as a form of speculation, and so are ready to resell when its value increases. And many of them are not shy about hustling for tips. As a dealer explained to me over dinner, after the...