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...important cricket match last week long enough to "open" a new wing in the big modern-and-foreign galleries at the National Gallery of Modern Art, known as the Tate Galleryš over by the Thames riverbank. There they greeted the donor of the new galleries, Sir Joseph Duveen, merchandizer of Art to U. S. and other millionaires...
...patrons include Mrs. Clarence Millheiser, Mrs. Minette Hirst, Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Oppenheimer, William Braden, Edgar J. Kauffman, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Forry S. Lancks, Messmore Kendall, Colonel Walter D. Scott, Mr: and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Winkler, Mrs. Irena Hopper, Robert Gillespi, Sir Joseph Duveen, Frank Stoors...
Last week, came the announcement that Duveen Bros., famed London dealers, had bought six of them-three Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Van Dyke, a Frans Hals-for a sum said to approximate $1,500,000.* The portraits would be shipped to the U. S. "soon," said the Duveens...
...Aquitania (Cunard)?Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S.; Sir Joseph Duveen, art patron; Arne Borg, Swedish swimming champion; Mrs. B. Schinasi, wife of the famed cigarette manufacturer; Hiram H. Walker, distiller of "Canadian Club" whiskey; Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Samuel Insull, Chicago Opera patron; Ada May, late of Lollipop...
...Joseph Duveen again presented the Tate gallery, London, with a new wing. This time, it is to be known as the "Sargent Gallery" and is specially designed to house the nucleus of a collection of paintings by the American, John Singer Sargent. The Tate Gallery presented by Sir Henry Tate in 1890, as an auxilliary to the National Gallery. Not only did he provide the ?80,000 needed for the new building, but also collection of 65 modern British pictures to go in it. The founder on the inscription on the building, refers to its own gift as "a thank...