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...Canaday's contribution is the largest single anonymous donation to the Harvard campus since Edwin H. Land anonymously gave the University $12 million in 1968 to build the Undergraduate Science Center...
...total of $11 million being spent on the two buildings comes exclusively from private donations. The $3 million paying for the new freshman dorm came from an anonymous donor, who authoritative sources have identified as Ward M. Canaday '07, a Toledo, Ohio, automobile and financial magnate...
...reasons for Canaday's desire for anonymity appear to be mysterious, especially in light of the fact that he reportedly has asked that the building be named after him upon its completion, scheduled for September...
...been selling-or, in the museum's oblique officialese, "de-accessioning"-works of art to raise money for other purchases. This is common and legal museum practice in the U.S., though not in England or Europe. But what provoked the A.D.A. was the discovery, reported by John Canaday in the New York Times, that last May the Metropolitan had secretly sold two paintings to the Liechtenstein branch of a leading international dealer, Marlborough Fine Art. The pictures were Henri Rousseau's The Tropics and The Olive Pickers by Van Gogh. Last week the Met disclosed that two more...
Unknown Mother. It takes an effort to remember that Newman was not always famous. He spent decades in the cold, both critically and financially. It is only five years since John Canaday's notorious assault on him in the New York Times-"an exhibition so meretricious that within a few days of its opening it had become the subject of appalled snickers along the art circuit." And in the 1950s, not even Newman's fellow artists liked his work much. His painting threatened them by contradicting the Abstract Expressionist orthodoxy of gesture, drip and "action...