Word: bequestioned
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...bequest has "considerably improved" the shaky Fogg Art Museum financial situation, John P. Coolidge '35, director of the museum, announced yesterday...
...bequest was received from the estate of Archibald Alexander Hutchinson...
...money from the Hutchinson bequest will be used to augment the salaries of the museum's employees and to enlarge the staff. A severe cut in the Fogg budget two years ago caused many employees to be laid off. Coolidge said he hoped the new funds would provide for the full replacement of the employees lost then. By next year, the staff will have new workers in the museum's library and secretarial departments...
...House of Lords, questions had been asked about how the Tate spends some of its bequest moneys. It turned out that in one case, part of the proceeds from ?40,000 ($112,000) left by a wealthy spinster for the purchase of works by contemporary Asians had been spent for Portrait of a Lady by John Constable, who was no Asian and died in 1837. From another bequest for the purchase of paintings, the Tate had bought some sculpture. In a third case, some funds left for the purchase of works by British artists had been spent on works...
...Tate's board of trustees admitted that some bequest money (?2,750) had not been used as directed, but insisted that the sum had been refunded from other income. Nevertheless, Painter Graham Sutherland (twelve of whose starkly modern paintings hang in the Tate) resigned his post as a trustee, last week charged that "several breaches of trust" had been committed and that the board had been duped on the current market value of modern works of art, resulting in "considerable wastage of public money...