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...expressed the very personal tastes of Mr. & Mrs. Havemeyer. Given the money and the opportunity, almost anyone would have bought the superb Rembrandts that grace the Havemeyer collection, but at the same time Mrs. Havemeyer was eagerly following the suggestion of her good friend, the late great Mary Cassatt,* and assembling the 36 pictures and 69 bronzes which make up probably the finest collection of Degas in the world...
...Mary Cassatt, sister of President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born in Pittsburgh in 1855, went to Paris in 1875, died there in 1926. Friend and disciple of Manet, Renoir, Degas and the Impressionists she became known as "the painter of Mothers and Children," is avidly collected in France...
Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, son of the late president of the Pennsylvania R. R., said his business took him all over the U. S., that he had never met a businessman "who volunteered the information that his business was benefited by Prohibition," that the only two people he knew who had stopped drinking under the law were a U. S. Senator and a Pennsylvania judge...
Since 1880 six men have been president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They were: Roberts, 1880-1897 Thompson, 1897-1899 Cassatt, 1899-1906 McRea, 1906-1913 Rea, 1913-1925 Atterbury, 1925- Fifth on the list in point of time, but not of stature, is Samuel Rea, who died last week in his home at Bryn Mawr, suburb of Philadelphia. Of him said Frederick D. Underwood, onetime (1901-26) president of Erie Railroad: "I have known four presidents of the Pennsylvania preceding Mr. Rea ... he stood head and shoulders above them...
...started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...