Right off the presses and just in time for Lakelanders’ Christmas stockings is a great coffee table book featuring the Polk Museum of Art.
PMoA@43: Forty-Three Years of Service to Minds and Hearts. Polk Museum of Art: 1966-2009 (ISBN: 978-0-9794814-5-1) was authored by Dr. James Gordon Rogers and Ann Gurley Rogers, respectively a Professor of Art History and a Library Specialist at Florida Southern College. It relates the near half-a-century old history of the PMoA, with its various missions, locations and activities inside and outside the museum proper. There are as well a lot of people stories and histories of the directors, curators, benefactors and volunteers. Museum and other local archives as well as personal interviews have been used to wrote and illustrate the text. The book helpfully lists various persons involved with the museum throughout the years and contains a name index.
The 13 inch by 11 inch, 189 pages hardcover sells for $50 ($40 for Museum members). The book is available at the Museum store; you can also order a copy online.
