If you've visited Amsterdam, you've probably been to the Rijksmuseum, one of the world's preeminent art museums - home to masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer - itself a vast, magnificent structure, built in 1895 by architect Pierre Cuypers. (rottentomatoes.com)
The book includes interviews with preeminent art historians such as David Sylvester, Mel Gooding, and Lynne Cooke, as well as in - depth studies of other artists: Piet Mondrian, Bruce Nauman, and Georges Seurat. (davidzwirnerbooks.com)
He later made his way west, enrolling in Los Angeles's preeminent art school, the Chouinard Art Institute, in 1951, where he became one of the first African American students. (vernissage.tv)