Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auction at Sotheby's in London last week, U.S. Collector Charles B. Wrightsman bought for $392,000 the Duke and Duchess of Leeds's portrait by Goya of the first Duke of Wellington. The auctioneer's gavel had hardly banged for the last time when a group of Tory M.P.s started a campaign to prevent Wrightsman from getting an export license-and that could mean, as it has with other purchasers, that Wrightsman might have to wait months before the government decides whether he can take his painting home, or must resell it in Britain at some...
...collectors of the Class of 1936 are standouts. The superb acquisitions of men like Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., David Rockefeller and Gordon Palmer, have the scope and excellence of first-rate museum pieces. These conoisseurs have bought wisely, but much more importantly, they have bought with a flair. The safe, the everyday, has little interest for them. They are out for the most important and the most impressive paintings they can find. Today, when art collection has become so widespread a form of investment, the private collector is generally notable for his caution, his collections for their dullness. But many members...
...exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe and Sir Walter Scott were admirers; and Anatole France remembered having dreams about Callot's graphic nightmares. In the last movement of his first symphony, Gustav Mahler included a Funeral March in Callot's Manner...
...council stands on the credo of its longtime executive vice president, Rabbi Elmer Berger: "We are Americans by nationality, Jews by religion only." It was founded in 1943 by 15 Reform rabbis and some 25 laymen, and is supported largely by Pennsylvania's Lessing J. Rosenwald, philanthropist, art collector and onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. It has helped establish religious schools (now numbering about a dozen in the U.S.), donates relief funds for some of the 1,000,000 Palestinian refugees displaced by the Arab-Israeli war ($3,000 last year). Arabs consider the council an ally...
...forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including a portrait of Canfield that Whistler called His Reverence...