Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never had any of Boston's own sons so delighted her museum. Armed with Mrs. Karolik's introductions to some of the oldest families, the museum's Decorative Arts Curator Edwin James Hipkiss and Collector Karolik knocked on doors from New Hampshire to Georgia, rooted out many an old desk, clock, silver tankard, portrait. While Curator Hipkiss pointed out good and bad features, Collector Karolik asked questions, absorbed information. To old New England and Philadelphia matrons, startled at the idea of selling American antiquity to a man with a Russian accent, they explained that every piece would...
...Collector Karolik's greatest satisfaction came not with the opening of the new wing, but three days later when his chief rival, No. 1 U.S. Antique Collector Henry du Pont, tripped up to Boston to look over the work of the upstart. "For his opinion I wass waiting," said Karolik. "He wass bowled ofer...
Fortnight ago Collector Dale lent 25 of his best pictures to Washington's new pink marble National Gallery, where a great many more people will see them than ever got into Dale's Manhattan mansion.* The pictures, which included the famed Old Musician, one of the two most ambitious and highly valued (at least $500,000) items ever to come from the brush of the late great Edouard Manet, perked up the National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe...
...whether the National Gallery would ever get any more such Chester Dale "loans" was doubtful. Reason: Of Collector Dale's 700 paintings, some 300 are by contemporary artists. The National Gallery hangs only pictures by artists who have been dead 20 years. "You don't suppose," snorted Dale, "that I would give my collection of Picassos, for instance, so they could bury them in the cellar until 20 years after Picasso dies...
...hollers, but its main purpose (selling art) was a flop (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). This year President Roosevelt gave Art Week a new national director, white-haired, diplomatic Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. and No. 1 salesman of the U.S. business world. Long a private collector who specializes in paintings by oldtime U.S. artists like Winslow Homer and George Inness, Thomas J. Watson has spent the past four years talking art-mindedness to U.S. business, has had his own International Business Machines Corp. go on a spree of art buying and exhibiting that would have shamed...