Strong-willed Minnie Byers left her home in Ellenboro, North Carolina when she was eighteen. With very little money, Byers found her way, attending business school in Richmond, learning secretarial skills and studying the stock market. The financial knowledge she acquired made her invaluable to the Phillips family.
Google’s celebrating, and so are we. Born José Victoriano González in Madrid on this day in 1887, the artist studied engineering before becoming a painter. Perhaps this background predisposed him for the cerebral, analytical qualities of cubism, which he took up in 1911. Like our founder Duncan Phillips, Gris loved color. He structured his compositions […]
By 1926, Duncan Phillips had three paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe in his collection. (Two of those remain today: My Shanty, Lake George and Pattern of Leaves.) In his book, Collection in the Making (1926), Phillips says of O’Keeffe, “All must recognize the potency of her pallette. A blue petunia will cause blue to become an […]
