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...fooled whom? With Cleghorn dead, it is impossible to tell; he had bought most of his pictures through an English "artist" who kept his eyes open for European purchases. "It's a very complicated situation," says Eckhardt with a sigh. "I don't know what...
...majority of the questioned paintings have no signatures, and most were donated by James Cleghorn, a wealthy Winnipeg hardware merchant, who died in 1936. Of the supposed old masters donated to the gallery from the Cleghorn collection, which was once insured for $250,000, declared Eckhardt, all are either copies or outright fakes. Items...
...Early Holland, a landscape attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Younger (1564-1638), valued by Cleghorn at $2,000. It was probably painted much later, says Eckhardt: "I would not hang this picture in my own home or anywhere...
...woman's head, attributed to Joshua Reynolds, valued by Cleghorn at $1,500. Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks that the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann...
...admiration for my native state is well known. It now includes a great admiration for Miss Cleghorn, although many of her opinions are far from my own. Here is a liberal, almost a radical mind, finely tempered by New England sanity and balance. It is a combination, rare in literature, perhaps rarer still in teaching. Her passion for humanity, tinged with mysticism, makes her verse memorable, and I imagine that as her work as a teacher develops, she will add not a few disciples to her already large list of friends...