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DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lamé suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...
...Degas’] subjects were considered in questionable taste—jockeys and naked ladies in their bathtubs,” said Marjorie B. Cohn, the Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints emerita, who wrote an article for the exhibit’s catalog...
...Sachs was the main promoter and was a great collector himself and persuaded other people to collect Degas,” said Cohn. “He had many students, so it wasn’t just that Harvard became a holder but also spread the missionary zeal...
...curators of the exhibit began planning the show roughly a year ago, prompted by the availability of space and the retirement of people familiar with Harvard’s Degas holdings, including Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs...
...Both Cohn and Boggs, who studied under Sachs in 1944 and went on to become the first female director of the National Gallery of Canada, contributed articles to the exhibit’s catalog...