Wallace Collection of the wealthiest families in Europe. They owned large properties in England, Wales and Ireland, and increased their wealth through successful marriages. Politically of lesser importance, the 3rd and 4th Marquess and Sir Richard Wallace became leading art collectors of their time. The Wallace Collection, comprising about 5,500 works of art, was bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace in 1897. The state then decided to buy Hertford House to display the collection and it was opened as a museum in 1900. As a museum the Wallace Collection's main strength is perhaps its extraordinary array of 18th-century French art:
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