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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museum of nonobjective painting from its opening in 1939 to 1952, and is still a trustee of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The baroness is also a painter, and between 1955 and 1959 she donated eight of her own paintings to three schools, Arizona State College, Milwaukee-Downer College and Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. The market value claimed on her tax returns ranged from $1,000 for an abstraction called Scherzo to $30,000 each for the three parts of her triptych Con Moto, Andante and Allegro. Last month, Internal Revenue challenged the evaluations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Baroness' Income Tax | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Miss Leighton, it must be candidly admitted, is a joy to watch at any time, and she almost saves the show just by being in it. Progressively downer and outer, she is ever, as she tells us at the end of Act I when she exits, stoned, with her dress covering little of her back, "every inch a lady...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Tchin-Tchin | 10/8/1962 | See Source »

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