Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madonna in the National Gallery in Washington, and St. Donate and the Tax Collector in the Worcester Art Museum...
...estate with 23-room mansion on Campobello Island, off Canada's New Brunswick coast, long the summer home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was put up for sale in national magazine ads. Price: "$50,000 with original furnishings; $75,000 with Hyde Park items." Among the Rooseveltiana: "Museum-caliber collector's items [such as] F.D.R.'s Cabinet meeting chair, childhood drawings." Biggest inducement to a commercial-minded purchaser: "Unexcelled opportunity to create a self-supporting memorial museum...
Such treasured paintings have been handed down from generation to generation, each collector adding his own red seal of ownership and often adding a poem of comment in his own hand. For the Chinese art lover, the pleasure of viewing a painting includes enjoying the calligraphy of the written words as an art in itself, deciphering the seals, analyzing the brushwork and drawing. But, essentially, each work reflects one great central theme. For well over a thousand years Chinese painters have been primarily concerned not with the works of man but with nature; their most triumphant subject has been landscape...
...Brother, the Rock."A painter who was to have an equally great influence on succeeding generations was Mi Fei, the ideal exponent of the wen-jen hua, or Literary Man's Painting. He was a great art collector, caustic critic, expert on ink-stones and a lover of fantastically eroded rocks (his favorite, placed in his garden, he addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing...
...Heinsohn could not seem to work the double pickoff play that was meant to give Sharpshooter Bill Sharman (TIME, Dec. 31) time and space in which to sink his shots. St. Louis' stringy little veteran. Slater Martin, was sticking to Celtic Bob Cousy like an overanxious bill collector. The slickest ball-handler in the game. Cousy shook himself loose and scored from the floor only twice in 20 tries...