“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
In honor of National Library Week (April 10-16, 2011), let’s look at how far The Phillips Collection library has come! The library was established in 1976 in a space on the fourth floor of the house, a beautiful light-filled room that had previously served as Laughlin Phillips’s baby nursery, Marjorie Phillips’s painting studio, and the Phillips Gallery Art School.
Phillips Gallery Art School, fourth floor of original house, c. 1930s. The Phillips Collection Archives.