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Ringling: The Florida Years, 1911-1936

Ringling: The Florida Years, 1911-1936

Weeks, David C.

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing Arts

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0813012430
ISBN13: 9780813012438
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Oct 1 1993
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

John Nicholas Ringling's years in Sarasota spanned the final quarter-century of his life. On Florida's west coast, as the Ringling's Circus became the greatest show on earth, he collected Baroque paintings, European decorative art, and Italian statuary, built the ostentatious mansion Ca'd'Zan, developed and marketed most of the barrier islands around Sarasota Bay, and became the focus of a confusing pastiche of acclaim, misconception, and suspicion. Sarasota's Ringling Museum is his priceless cultural legacy to the people of Florida and the world of art--an inheritance at risk for the ten years that Ringling's estate was in probate.

The author of this first intensive look at Ringling's presence in Sarasota sets the man against the backdrop of Florida from World War I through the land boom and the turbulent twenties into the depression years and Ringling's lapse into obscurity.

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