This book commemorates the inaugural exhibition at Glenstone, on view September 2006 through January 2009, which showcases seminal works from the collection dating from the postwar period through 1990 and includes artists such as John Baldessari, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly.

Monumental works by Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, and Tony Smith are highlighted in an overview of outdoor sculpture at Glenstone. In an interview with adviser Stephanie Rachum, Mitchell Rales discusses the evolution of his personal passion and the development of this distinguished collection. Noted art historian Yve-Alain Bois contextualizes several important works in the exhibition in an examination of paradigm shifts within art criticism.