Word: athyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bryn Athyn...
...Terrace caught the eye of the Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, a Swedenborgian pastor from Bryn Athyn, Pa., and an heir to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass fortune. Pitcairn, now 74, who explains with a twinkle that he selects paintings not for investment but because "I have a feeling for them," bought the Monet from a Manhattan gallery for $11,000. Last week The Terrace was up for auction at Christie's in London on behalf of Pitcairn's Beneficia Foundation. The winning bid of $1,410,000 by London Art Dealer Geoffrey Agnew was nearly triple the record auction price...
...named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
...teachings, which have influenced such disparate figures as Balzac, Emerson, Lincoln, and Helen Keller. Today there are more than 7,000 loyal Swedenborgians in the U.S. (and about 45,000 elsewhere) who belong to three churches. The biggest concentration of them is in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Athyn; there, most of the town's population of 1,100 belong to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, which for 51 years has been putting up a magnificent-but still incomplete-Gothic cathedral...