Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-seven year old Harry Elkins Widener was always worried about what he would give to Harvard. A young book collector and heir to transit-car millions, he could not, however, compete with J. P. Morgan for the rarer editions at auctions. Before he left for Europe in the spring of 1912, he considered either establishing a bibliography chair at Harvard, or giving the University a fireproof library...
Hollywood Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson is a dedicated amateur in the world of art, and filmdom's most ardent art collector. The passion for paintings, he says, is "a rewarding love affair, even if it takes over your house, your family, your income and your life." This week 40 of Robinson's prize oils take over part of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and in May the collection will move on to the National Gallery in Washington...
...products of the Paris-bred revolution which began with Delacroix and survives today in Matisse. It overthrew the power of tobacco-juice brown and gradually raised pure color to the position of first importance in Western art. At the center of that revolution stands the creator of one of Collector Robinson's prize acquisitions: the one-eared, fox-bearded Dutchman who painted the portrait opposite, and whose 100th birthday will be celebrated this month...
...riskiest experiments an art patron can make is to set a course that keeps him right up with the advance guard; too often the most beckoning highway turns out to be a blind alley. But Collector Edward Root,* a retired college professor with a tidy inheritance to dispose of, is one U.S. art patron with faith in young painters, and especially young U.S. painters. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where 132 of Collector Root's pictures were on exhibit last week, art lovers got a chance to see how well he had followed the changing course...
...California and Shell Union in a deal that netted Mrs. Armour $8,216,058. She promptly moved back to the North Shore, invested grandly in Chicago real estate, made a sensational social comeback, and passed her remaining days as a patron of the arts, philanthropist, horticulturist and collector of glass dogs...