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Driven Man. Last month the huge bequest of some 130 pictures went on public view for the first time in a new underground gallery excavated below the museum garden. There were paintings by Monet's masters, Delacroix and Boudin, and by his fellow Impressionists -including a magnificent portrait of Monet himself at age 32 by his friend Auguste Renoir. But the bulk of the gift is Monet's Monets-a unique and stunningly complete core sample of 65 oils and four pastels spanning his growth as an artist from 1870 to the series of lily ponds which, over...
Donations for 1971 are expected to slightly surpass last year's figure. "Of course, that is excluding the possibility of a large bequest," Colt said. Last year's total did not include any such large contribution...
Pauper's Bequest. Though Nixon did not name him, the man he was answering is Wilbur Mills; the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has made plain his implacable opposition to revenue sharing. Normally as cautious in manner as he is with federal spending, Mills has become increasingly bitter over the economic picture presented in Nixon's budget as well as the political potential in the revenue-sharing plan. Mills believes that Nixon's deliberately expansionary budget would produce not the announced $11.6 billion deficit, but one of at least $24 billion and possibly as high...
...enters on a middle level and is given choices: up one floor to the permanent display of 45 paintings by Hans Hofmann-a bequest to the museum from his estate-or down to the free exhibition space on areas below. The floors are broken but connected by ramps, so that viewers move slowly downward through a constantly shifting interior, accented by promontories of raw concrete that jut over the halls like ships' prows. Says Director Peter Selz: "You devise ways and means of installing an exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made...
...donors could have commented on the taste of particular families. The elaborate Toilet of Venus was donated by Wiliam K. Vanderbilt. Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist, helped the Havemeyer family choose the works of Spanish artists. El Greco's View of Toledo is part of the 1929 Havemeyer bequest: a view of Mary Cassatt's judgment...