Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first heard of the cross eight years ago; it had been stashed away in a Swiss bank vault by an Austrian collector. It was carved from seven pieces of walrus tusk, a distinctly North European material; and from such traits of style as "damp folds"-garments that cling smoothly around the anatomy-Met Associate Curator of Medieval Art Thomas P. F. Hoving deduced that the cross was from late 12th century England...
Freely translated, Lal Bahadur Shastri means "Graduate Brave Jewel." He was born in 1904, the second son of a minor tax collector in the vil lage of Mughal Sarai, near the holy city of Benares. His father died when he was an infant. The child belonged to the Kayasth caste, who were disdained as quislings by other Hindus because they became clerks and officials under the Moslem rule of the conquering Mogul emperors. Their reputation for shrewdness is so great that an Indian saying runs, "If you meet a Kayasth and a serpent, kill the Kayasth first...
...show is the work of John Wise, a scholarly, self-effacing New York dealer and collector, and Peter Pollack, former director of the American Federation of Arts. For 75? admission, the viewer sees 500 pieces of gold worth $3,000,000 on the art market, stunningly shown in window-cases designed by Gene Moore, display director for Fifth Avenue's Tiffany & Co. Through it all shines the innocence of the pre-Columbian artist, who comes out vindicated in his greatness, as predicted by an early Spanish chronicler: "Thus the Sun taught his people how to be kings and lords...
...British critic Sir Kenneth Clark wrote once that he understood a certain private collection of Fragonard's rococo oils when he looked at the same owner's collection of butterflies. The collector's eye had plainly drawn strength from the kinship of fragrant, fluttery forms in art and nature. To pin down the taste of California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, 57, the most discriminating art collector on the West Coast (see color pages), is a similar exercise in analogy. But Simon's other collection is companies...
Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...