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Book SynopsisThe deeply personal story of a milestone North American art collection.
“There are many ways to collect art, many motivations and points of departure. In my estimation, Michael Audain’s is of the socially beneficial variety: avid and personal enough to cultivate the eye, local and deep enough to generate knowledge. Would that his approach were more common. This generous book shows how it’s done.” (Marc Mayer, C.M., former director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.)
Michael Audain’s passion for art began when he was a teenager, taping reproductions of Bruegel paintings to his dorm room walls. Over the years, his eye for art developed and together with wife Yoshiko (Yoshi) Karasawa, he acquired one of North America’s most notable collections. In Pictures on the Wall, Audain tells the story of this assemblage: from the first tentative purchases to the collection’s home, today, at the Audain Art Mus
