Wallace Collection the largest, most important and extant collection of French 18th-century decorative arts in the world, rivalled only by the triumvirate of the Musée du Louvre, Château de Versailles and Mobilier National in France. The Wallace Collection is a non-departmental public body and admission is free. The Wallace Collection is a museum which displays the works of art collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by five generations of a British aristocratic family – the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess. In the 19th century, the Marquesses of Hertford were one
Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art was exhibited. In parallel, a book also entitled "Painting toward architecture" was released in November 1948. The catalogue essay was written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock; Alfred H. Barr, Jr. of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, wrote the foreword. Graphic designer Bradbury Thompson designed the catalogue. Through its run, the travelling exhibition received substantial national media coverage and deepened a discussion on Modern art and architecture in the United States. Apart from "Painting toward architecture", there were other Miller Company art shows at Wesleyan University (1945), Cornell University (1951), Smith College (1951-52), and Trinity College in Hartford (1958). Throughout