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...national committee for art appreciation to create an art program that would give the public a well-needed moral lift. It was the committee's decision to select the world's most famous paintings from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries - the best paintings of Matisse, Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Picasso, Gauguin, Titian, etc., and to reproduce them in full color as perfectly as humanly possible and make them available to the public at a price within the reach of nearly everyone...
...Maurice Wertheim Collection of 38 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the School of Paris will be on display at the Fogg until the end of the summer. Matisse, Bonnard, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Seurat, Van Gogh and Picasso are among the painters included in the collection. Sculpture by Maillol, Degas and Despiau will also be among the works on exhibit...
...happy to see your story on John Denver [Sept. 17]. What Van Gogh has painted ana Thoreau has written, Denver has sung. His songs keep me contented until the day I, too, see the Rockies...
...with a campaign of discreet lobbying with collectors. It is indicative of Marlborough's reputation for secrecy-and for giving cash on the barrel-that when New York's Metropolitan Museum wanted to raise some quick funds last year by selling its Rousseau Tropics and its Van Gogh Olive Pickers (TIME, Feb. 26), Lloyd was chosen. It is equally typical of Lloyd's nerve that he disposed of the Rousseau in Japan and the Van Gogh to the Goulandris collection in Europe, at a profit of somewhere near...
NOTABLE EXHIBITS currently at Harvard include the Wertheim Collection now being shown at the Fogg, which includes a number of French late nineteenth century works of astonishing quality. All are carefully chosen, from the Van Gogh self-portrait with its bright green background burning through at the subject's eyes to a Matisse bowl of geraniums that illustrates the gradual way the twentieth century grew out of the advances of the eighties and nineties. There is not a weak or ordinary picture in the group and, together in one room, they provide an excellent area for cross-comparison...