Word: delacroix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials at San Francisco's de Young Museum were happily sorting through their newest treasure trove-some 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures ranging from Boucher and Delacroix to Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. A museum director could hardly ask for a finer gift; moreover, the works, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, filled in a period where the de Young's own collection was weak. But museum officials were perhaps the least bit embarrassed too-about the personality of the donor. She happens to be the widow and custodian of the estate of T. Edward Hanley, the distinguished...