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Private Fief. The Hirshhorn collection is by far the largest public bequest of art ever made by a single American. It opens next week, after three nights of inaugural ceremonies punctuated by a "recording of opening fanfare played over sound system at intervals in the lobby." From the turning of the sod to the tootling of the brass, the building has cost $16 million and provoked steady criticism from those who see it as a feat of egotism. (Not even Andrew Mellon, critics complain, insisted that his name should stay in the title of "his" nearby National Gallery.) The Hirshhorn...
...refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church memorial...
After studying the situation, Bickford recommended last January that Quinn initiate court action. Bickford further suggested that Quinn seek court action for an accounting of two 18th century Harvard trust funds for Indians: the Stoughton Bequest of 1701, and the Williams Trust...
...fellowships were established through a bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband, Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal...
...with manuscripts, so with drawings. The Morgan's collection was recently fortified by a bequest from one of the greatest collectors of Italian drawings, Janos Scholz. What the library now offers is of almost unparalleled rarity, beginning with a black chalk study of devils-spiky, nervous and of an almost hallucinatory vigor-by the 15th century Artist Luca Signorelli, proceeding through works by Pontormo, Filippino Lippi, Dürer, Fragonard, Bruegel and Blake...