Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collector from Chicago was glad that he visited the Middletown, N.Y. asylum that day in 1916. It was a privilege to talk with Artist Ralph Albert Blakelock, whose moonlit lakes and forests were bringing up to $20,000 apiece. And the painter seemed perfectly all right, too-at least, until the moment when he drew what looked like a roll of bills from his pocket and gave three to his visitor. "Take this back to Chicago," Blakelock soberly advised him. "Don't spend it, but live off the interest." The bills turned out to be three little green landscapes...
Mabel Dodge Luhan, veteran salon-keeper and genius-collector, strangely silent after years of holding nothing back in volume after volume of Intimate Memories, was merely busy writing about her neighbors again. Out next fortnight: Taos and Its Artists. Four-times-married Mrs. Luhan, 68, still married to Pueblo Indian Tony after 24 years, talked to a reporter about domesticity and the Gadget Age. Marriage? "I have not analyzed it much for the last 30 years, but it is wonderful. It is a pleasure." Modern times? "If more machinery would break down, sort of gradually, we would all be better...
Vincent Starrett's The Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King...
Choice items now sold are former professor of Latin E. K. Rand's collection of classics and textbooks. For the collector of esoterica there are quantities of old Baedekers, a "History of Harvard," by Samuel A. Eliot, and "Harvard Memories," of Charles W. Eliot...
Hall walked on too-to Paris, where he turned art student in the Latin Quarter, lived with a collector of poisonous serpents. His friends lived with far-from-poisonous mistresses, whom they obtained through the Montmartre want-ad columns. Sample ad: "Artist, young, tall, healthy and sincere, seeks feminine friend (18-22), brunette, to chase away cafard (the beetle of loneliness), pretty, well formed, pretty legs, healthy, sincere, pecuniarily disinterested, affectionate; for durable relations; send photograph; professionals keep away...