Art and intimacy / Robert Hughes -- The evolution of a critic : changing views in the writings of Duncan Phillips / David W. Scott -- A collection in the making / George Heard Hamilton -- Sources of modernism / David Rosand -- France in the late nineteenth century / Charles Stuckey -- The American vision: The American tradition and American impressionism / Elizabeth Tebow ; Duncan Phillips and the American popular tradition / Jane Kallir -- Modernism in France: Bonnard, Matisse, and the School of Paris / Elizabeth Hutton Turner ; Braque, Picasso, and other Cubists / Kenneth E. Silver -- The Dreier gift and other European modernists / Erika D. Passantino -- The spirit of revolt and the beginning of American modernism / David W. Scott -- Duncan Phillips and American modernism : the continuing legacy of the Experiment Station / William C. Agee -- The American scene : realism and social concern / Richard L. Rubenfeld -- Painting in Europe after the Second World War / Sarah Wilson -- American art after the Second World War / Eliza E. Rathbone -- The Phillips Collection and art in Washington: Washington and Baltimore artists from the 1930s through the 1950s / Ben L. Summerford ; Washington art in the 1960s and beyond / Willem De Looper with Jeffrey Harrison.