Word: atheneum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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S.R.O. performances packed the concert halls in Britain and France, but the real fun began behind the Iron Curtain. At Bucharest's 1,000-seat Atheneum Hall, where temperatures hit 100°, the box office turned away 10,000 ticket seekers. Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy and his 104 players were cheered inside the packed hall for more than 15 minutes ("Never in my life have I heard such strings," glowed a Rumanian conductor), escaped outside only after police charged the cheering mobs in the streets. In Kiev, the reception was even bigger. Decked with Ukrainian flowers, the orchestra swept...
...walls of the Knoedler Galleries in Manhattan this week is a show built around periods of painting that until recently have been out of fashion. It is a choice Connecticut selection of 41 paintings from Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. While it ranges from Rembrandt to Andrew Wyeth and includes Hartford's latest bequest, Renoir's Monet Painting in His Garden, the show gets its impact from the sound and fury, anguish and ecstasy beloved by baroque and rococo artists of the 17th and 18th centuries...
...surprise $2,000,000 in 1927 from Hartford Banker Frank C. Sumner ("He used to drive out in a purple Rolls-Royce to see the Hartford Chiefs play baseball, but as far as we know he never walked into the museum in his life") gave the Atheneum the bank account it direly needed. Looking for an out-of-vogue period in which to buy first-class painting, the director, the late A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., beelined for the then unwanted, melodramatic baroque and rococo canvases...
...continuing the policy, Atheneum Director Charles C. Cunningham, 47, Fogg-trained and onetime ('32) Harvard hockey captain, played up the collection's strength, has made Hartford today a showplace for baroque. Among the museum's bargain showpieces: Francisco Ribalta's Ecstasy of St. Francis (first by the 17th century Spanish master to enter a U.S. collection), Salvator Rosa's wild-haired portrait of his mistress, La Ricciardi (purchased for a mere $4,500), Francisco Zurbarán's dramatic St. Serapion, and the museum's latest acquisition, the powerful, full-bearded Philosopher...
...Painter's Part. Best of the lot. perhaps, was Trumbull's small Declaration of Independence (see cut). (The Atheneum was unable to borrow the actual painting from the Yale University Art Gallery, but it did exhibit a later version.) In only 30 inches of width, Yale's picture contains 48 portrait figures, all grouped naturally and convincingly in a manner suited to the solemn occasion. Among them, at the table before John Hancock, stand John Adams, Roger Sherman. Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The painting is a set piece, but Trumbull succeeded in conveying...