The Boston Raphael

Praise for The Boston Raphael “Perhaps the most exciting book on the art world since Jonathan Harr’s The Lost Painting.”—The Boston Globe “In the compelling story of her father, Perry Rathbone, and the years when he was the elegant and revolutionary director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Belinda Rathbone evokes our country’s most glamorous years… The Boston Raphael is a combination of personal memoir and rich, deliciously detailed history that will keep you turning the pages.”—Susan Cheever “In this fascinating book about a watershed moment in the culture of America’s art museums, Rathbone (Walker Evans) considers her father Perry Rathbone’s directorship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) . . . [Rathbone’s] book sheds light on museology of the present as well as of the past.”—Publishers Weekly