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...Said he: "Hell, the group controlling the cultural institutions out there . . . repudiated me. They are rich and a rich man doesn't want to be reminded that his backgrounds are mules and manure. He doesn't want a Benton hanging on his walls; he wants a Van Dyck. . . . Don't ever get art separated from money." Grumbling that the "New York influence" dominates U.S. artistic taste, Benton said, "The same thing happened in France. . . . What the hell is Paris? A city of devices, that's all-women's fancy drawers and fancy pictures...
...Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
...retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Some of McCall's paintings bore such signatures as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Thomas Gainsborough. But certain Memphis newsmen were not impressed. They called on fastidious Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Valentiner's thudding opinion: the City of Memphis had been stung...
...zanne's 1,155 oil paintings; 52 of El Greco's 115; 18 of Vermeer's 37; 83 of Gainsborough's 300; 34 of Velasquez' 92; 143 of Rembrandt's 988; 87 of Romney's 429; 106 of Van Dyck...
...come: Sir Joshua Reynolds' idyllic portrait of The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with an eye to the needs of the Cleveland museum, so the museum found little...