Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Andrew William Mellon was seeking a rebate on overpaid back income taxes after the Treasury had dunned him for underpaid back taxes, his lawyers sought to underscore Mr. Mellon's patriotism by announcing that some day the Republic would fall heir to his $19,000,000 art treasures. Last week that day semi-ofncially arrived...
...Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. for $1.250,000. Each portrait of the 175 is of and by a character of first national importance and Mr. Mellon's acquisition of them, a fact hitherto not widely known, was of itself a big item in the week's art news...
...Mellon six years ago started to put into an irrevocable trust, so that his heirs would not be responsible for inheritance taxes on it. He now proposed that the Government or the Smithsonian Institution take over the collection as a "nucleus" for an institution to be called "The National Art Gallery." He proposed the erection of a gallery on Washington's Mall, on plans for which he had set Architect John Russell Pope working a year ago. For constructing the gallery, Mr. Mellon offered the sum of $9,000,000, promised an endowment fund for maintaining a staff...
...This was especially so because for many years I have felt the need for a national gallery of art in the capital. Your proposed gift does more than furnish what you call a 'nucleus' because I am confident that the collections you have been making are of the first importance and will place the nation well up in the first rank...
Directly opposite the front portal of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the new statue will be unveiled next week in the entrance court of Rockefeller Center's International Building. The work of 49-year-old Lee Lawrie, member of Washington's Federal Art Commission, long famed for his work on Nebraska's State Capitol, it shows a beardless, youthful Atlas stepping up to a granite pedestal with bis left foot, bearing on his shoulders a tremendous astronomical globe whose axis will point at the North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high...