Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beautifier (MODERN LIVING)-Portrait of a Lady Bountiful: philanthropist. Oxonian, art collector, known to New Yorkers as the city's unofficial green thumb, now deeply involved in the White House conference on American beauty. She is Mary Lasker, the kind of woman who, when she sends flowers, may send 40,000 daffodils...
...count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling a $45 million assortment of art that ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only one of the few individual collectors with the money and desire for a first-class Rembrandt, but also that even rarer creature: a man who pursues great paintings and additional companies with equal vigor, thereby establishing a collector's reputation in both business...
...prevent the painting from being sold piecemeal, Pop Art Collector Robert Scull bought F-111 for an extravagant $60,000. He will need a museum to show it. "I realize I bought a monster," said Scull, "but the painting makes us look at our culture. Behind our prosperity is the ominous F-111." Says Scull's wife Ethel of her husband: "It's great, but I think...
BACK TO CHINA, by Leslie Fiedler. The hero is a guilt collector who enmeshes himself in the misdeeds of others, while fastidiously ignoring his gaping lapses of conscience. A good satire on the portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-dirty-dog school...
...enterprising art dealer named Justin K. Thannhauser and an eager collector, Movie Actor Edward G. Robinson, left Paris together, along with their wives, for an art-seeing holiday in Switzerland. Their main goal was an exhibition on loan from the Prado. They saw the Spanish paintings, but the Thannhausers never returned to France. World War II began, and as German-born Jews, they took sanctuary in Switzerland until they could come to New York...