Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roses & Romance. As educational director, the Professor also edited the garbageman's house organ, The Hired Broom, wrote inspiring editorials ("Out of Garbage There Grows a Rose"), so enthralled his readers with the feeling for the romance of garbage that one collector re-christened his wagon Egabrag, hardly less appealing when spelled backwards...
...with a feeling of sky, air and space." ¶ Red and Black, by Clyfford Still. This is the Albright's prime acquisition to date, because merely to own a Still is a rarity. Painter Still is so cantankerous that he flatly refuses to sell his work to any collector or museum not of his own choosing, and then is likely to offer only one painting at a take-it-or-leave-it price. The only other museums to own Still's work are the San Francisco Museum of Art, which gave him his first one-man show...
...Scrambling for new revenue, they had just about settled on a sewer tax when someone brought in a copy of the next day's Baltimore Sun. On the back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...
...busy for casual gallery browsing, Niarchos relies on auction catalogues, a network of watchful employees and the tips (as well as enthusiasms) of his well-heeled collector friends. His behind-the-scenes maneuvering reached a climax when he bought the Robinsons' collection without seeing anything more than a catalogue (though his handsome Greek wife Eugenie, who often drops in at galleries, did fly to Los Angeles under an assumed name for a firsthand look...
Professor Huang, now 59, got part of his early training from his family's picture-mounter, Su Chang, whose "Studio of Pines and Snow" was a collector's hangout famous throughout China. A recognized painter by the time he was 20, Huang spent the Nationalist government's long wartime exile in Chungking teaching and making sketching trips along the wild and misty mountain gorges of the Kialing River. He went to Formosa in 1948 as a member of a good-will mission just before Communists seized control of Nanking's National Central University, where...