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...Jack Gardner's drab, geodesic, erratic building, which finally opened to the public after her death in 1924, is composed of antique fragments imported from Italy (consisting of balustrades, columns, Gothic windows), of paintings (many Italian masterpieces selected by Harvard's most famous art student, Bernard Berenson) and of manuscripts (from Dante's Inferno to Keats's poetry). She took an interest in young musicians as well as their music, giving aspiring players a chance to perform private concerts before their New York debuts...
Finding pictures is only half the job. Equally challenging is evaluating and appraising them, which can take nerves of steel and the judgment of Solomon (or Berenson). "One of the most important pictures I ever handled was a late Rembrandt, A Praying Apostle," says Eugene V. Thaw, 42, who deals in European masters, both classic and modern, out of his ten-room Park Avenue apartment. "The painting was signed and dated, and I knew it was a Rembrandt, but something about it bothered me. Experts thought it was one of the artist's less important works, but I thought...
Rising Waters. As it has for centuries, Venice last week enticed and entranced a horde of tourists, part of the city's 3,000,000 annual visitors. Few of them were aware that "man's most beautiful artifact," as Art Historian Bernard Berenson called Venice, is sinking beneath their feet...
...summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Walker prepared for the job by studying for three years with the legendary Bernard Berenson in Italy. He helped "B.B." to prepare his definitive Italian Painters of the Renaissance, a background that proved invaluable when he joined the new National Gallery as curator at its founding under then Director David Edward Finley. When Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and others offered their collections to the new gallery, it fell to Walker to make selections from them and to authenticate debated pictures. Walker became director himself in 1956; during his term, he almost doubled...
...since 1961. At 34, he becomes the youngest director of a major museum in the U.S. Scion of the rich Rhode Island Browns (his grandfather founded Brown University and his parents are both well-known collectors), the new director is also a Harvard man and latter-day student of Berenson's. During the past two years, he has been principally concerned with plans for the National Gallery's most ambitious new project: the $20 million Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a sort of esthetic equivalent to the science-oriented School for Advanced Study at Princeton...