The gallery has a first-rate collection of ceramics, but it also houses the Staffordshire Hoard – the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.
The Addison Gallery in Andover owned a first-rate collection of American art, and the school had a studio-art program with a wonderful teacher named Patrick Morgan.
Helmut Lang cut fall-away panels into his first-rate collection, while Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton severed chic coats into horizontal segments.
"It's a first-rate collection," said William H. Truettner, a curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a consultant on the project.
Art tends to cluster in such places, in this instance seeded by a wealthy lawyer's 1946 bequest to the city of a first-rate collection of Expressionist painting.
Novelist Robert Stone published a first-rate collection of short stories, Fun with Problems, only his second in his long career as a writer.
Ms. Sander, who early on amassed a first-rate collection of contemporary art, has an easy way of adapting art's strategies to her own more utilitarian ends.
At my college library, "Selected Letters of James Joyce" opened straight to December, 1909, when it was pulled from the shelves, drawing your eyes to a first-rate collection of smut.
He talked some of America's biggest foundations and the state of Michigan into rescuing the first-rate collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts DIAA) by pledging $816m to protect it from the city's creditors.
Having visited the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., and marveled that a college-town museum should have such an astoundingly first-rate collection, I was fascinated by Updike's account of its origins.
He had a passion for baseball statistics, a first-rate collection of baseball cards and a reputation as such a shrewd trader that boys were careful not to agree to a trade with George Bush without thinking it over very carefully.
