Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooked at last, the fried ova of eternity. This celebrated picture has been seen before in Manhattan. It was exhibited there again last week at the opening of the trinational exhibition of the painting and sculpture of France, England and the U. S. assembled by Mrs. E. H. Harriman (TIME...
...near east, St. Louis. The proposed merger brings out some intricacies of railroad financing. The Rock Island and the Southern Pacific have long worked together; have run through trains from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. These two roads had the same bankers until the late Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909) bought the Southern Pacific with the desire of merging it with the Union Pacific. He took his business to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., where it had remained until this new development. The Frisco used to be one of the Gould roads, until the intricate financial strength of that family became unloosed...
...Harriman is a very generous and discerning patron of the arts. She recently organized an exhibition of French, English and American art, which she has already exhibited in London and Paris. Last week the Grand Central Art Galleries announced that the trinational show will be presented there in April...
Critics noted that the work of many artists who are members of the Grand Central Galleries Association has been pointedly omitted from Mrs. Harriman's exhibition. So has that of a good many famed Englishmen and Frenchmen. But although the omissions in this, as in every other international exhibition, will lead to discussion, possibly even to ill-feeling, not even the disgruntled artists themselves could question the patrician disinterestedness of a lady who is one of the most noted sponsors of good art in this country. She was helped in choosing the American artists by Marius de Zayas...
...Harriman is tall, slender, grave. Because she likes trees, she gave $80,000 to found a chair of Forestry at Yale; because she likes music, she is the founder and main support of the American Orchestral Society; because she appreciates art, she is planning to hold her trinational exhibition annually...