Word: kennerley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owner immediately sailed for Europe, leaving the business in charge of its old employes. One day in London he ran into Mitchell Kennerley. Kennerley (who had been a publisher) was owner of another big Manhattan auction house-the Anderson Galleries. Bishop asked him whether he would like to sell the Anderson Galleries. Mr. Kennerley agreed (for $500,000) and the two firms were merged in October...
...both dissatisfied with sales of the Bishop art. They looked about for a book expert to help courtly President Hiram Haney Parke (art specialist who had been with the company 25 years, had run it for Owner Bishop since 1923) sell the books. The man they found was Mitchell Kennerley again. Hiram Parke resigned. So did Vice President Otto Bernet. With them departed most of the American Art Association's experts, auctioneers, appraisers, to found the new Parke-Bernet Galleries around the corner, leaving Mitchell Kennerley as president with what remained of his old Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley...