Word: mellon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luncheon Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, addressed the Overseers, the Corporation, and their guests. Earlier in the day, Knox discussed the functions of the Center and Paul Mellon, Chairman of the Trustees of the Old Dominion Foundation, discussed the Center's inception...
...Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is brilliantly performing the role of reappraiser for the art of Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. The 451 paintings and drawings, ranging from family portraits to animal studies to magnificent sea and landscapes, are from the collection of Paul Mellon, new president of the National Gallery. A longtime collector of British painting, Mellon acquired most of the works in the show in the past three years, picking them up not only at auctions but directly from the owners of England's stately homes, to which his wide acquaintanceship in British...
...time, with all its grace and majesty and the sordidness that lay beneath. A Constable landscape may be a vast vista of perfect peace; but Hogarth is not far behind to remind one, like a conscience, that art must also deal with filth, poverty and disease. The Mellon collection gives a fresh view of a time of stunning versatility and charm. To the English, art was a craft to be perfected with loving care, and the grace note was often as important as the thundering chord. Yet, when no longer seen through the haze of Victorian valentines that followed...
Business: Frederick G. Donner, Crawford Greenewalt, Conrad Hilton, William McChesney Martin, Alfred P. Sloan, Juan Trippe, Thomas J. Watson. Eddie Rickenbacker, Richard Mellon, Gwilym A. Price, G. Keith Funston, Ralph Cordiner, Lynn A. Townsend, Elizabeth Arden...
Recent gifts to the Program include an unrestricted grant of $100,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburg, $100,000 for teaching and research from Mrs. Gilbert Verney, Greenwich, Conn., and $240,000 for neurology work from John Factor, Beverly Hills, Calif...