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Graduated Gifts. Ward was the son of a wealthy New York banker. He spent four frolicsome student years in Europe, lumbering about the Continent in a huge carriage fitted out with sleeping accommodations for two. Returning home, he married the granddaughter of John Jakob Astor, then the richest man in the U.S. His European polish might have seemed a liability in American politics, but he knew just how to put it to good use. Operating on the principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French...
...camping trip with his wife and three children, Slive was haunted by the picture: "I know it "sounds corny, but I honestly had visions of that painting in the campfires." Back in Cambridge, he had the oil sketch shipped to him for closer inspection. Fogg Art Museum colleagues, including Jakob Rosenberg, scrutinized it and agreed on its authenticity. Experts evaluated it as high as $400,000. To make finally certain, Slive strung the painting around his neck in a bag and flew off to Holland. "I felt just like James Bond," confesses Slive. The concurrence of the six leading Dutch...
...modest collector, prints offer all the pleasure of owning an original at a bargain rate, and the artists have responded by turning out prints that rank among their most important work. Few men realized the brahminization of graphics faster than Jakob Rosenberg, now 71, former print curator of the Berlin State Museum and of Harvard's Fogg Museum, and now in semiretirement, teaching at Williams College. A steady scholar who can and has separated many a Rembrandt from a replica by its brush work, Rosenberg is called "the expert's expert" by Fogg Director John Coolidge. His students...
...survivors and crowd scenes in his blue 1962 lithograph, Stunt Man I. Each of an edition of 37 now costs upwards of $200, if one can be found. Though no longer so cheap, graphics are still finer for many than are oils. There may be no end to Saint Jakob's ladder...
Stresses & Strains. The geodesic dome, then, is really a kind of benchmark of the universe, what 17th century Mystic Jakob Böhme might call "a signature of God." It crops up all over in nature-in viruses, testicles, the cornea of the eye. And for the time being at least, Bucky Fuller has this signature of God sewed up tight in U.S. patent No. 2,682,235, issued in June 1954. It is almost like having a patent on Archimedes' principle...