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...spent recuperating from a broken bone in his foot, sustained during the cross-country season, won't be ready for action until February at the earliest, while Rollo Campbell has not yet returned to the squad. He too suffered a leg injury in the course of the hill-and-dale season...
...redhead; I'm liable to do anything," affably croaked Manhattan's No. 1 collector of French art, leather-faced ex-Utilities Tycoon Chester Dale. What Collector Dale was liable to do was a question that worried many a U.S. museum. From 1926 (when his wife switched his ruling passion from fire engines to art) to 1936 Collector Dale bought French paintings as shrewdly as he formerly consolidated power companies. His collection, now valued at $6,000,000 to $15,000,000, outgrew three Manhattan apartments, now fills five floors of a museumlike private mansion on East 79th Street...
Fortnight ago Collector Dale lent 25 of his best pictures to Washington's new pink marble National Gallery, where a great many more people will see them than ever got into Dale's Manhattan mansion.* The pictures, which included the famed Old Musician, one of the two most ambitious and highly valued (at least $500,000) items ever to come from the brush of the late great Edouard Manet, perked up the National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe...
...whether the National Gallery would ever get any more such Chester Dale "loans" was doubtful. Reason: Of Collector Dale's 700 paintings, some 300 are by contemporary artists. The National Gallery hangs only pictures by artists who have been dead 20 years. "You don't suppose," snorted Dale, "that I would give my collection of Picassos, for instance, so they could bury them in the cellar until 20 years after Picasso dies...
...autumn scene with four wild ducks rising from a marsh by Watercolorist J. D. Knap and three variations on last year's best-selling themes: an angel flying over a bleak northern landscape by Rockwell Kent; a railroad snow plow and a country wagon by Chicago Illustrator Dale Nichols; a Rockefeller Center scene by Joseph Golinkin...