Word: mellon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water-colors and drawings, and 47 pieces of sculpture are works from 17 countries, ranging from the nightmarish quality of Francis Bacon's Study for Head of a Pope, lent by Beekman Cannon, '34, to Paul Gauguin's sunlit Landscape at Le Pouldu, lent by Paul Mellon, '29. France leads the list with 99 entries; next is the U.S. with 42. Most represented artist in the show is Picasso, with eleven pieces, followed by Degas with ten, Rodin with six, and Matisse. Cézanne, Monet and Vuillard with five each. The most represented U.S. artist...
...much high-powered sponsorship as the one now going on in Richmond. Director Leslie Cheek Jr. of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts first began working on it back in 1954, when two sporting gentlemen on his board of trustees fell to talking about their favorite subject. Trustee Paul Mellon agreed to help raise the money, and both President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth were signed on as honorary patrons. Gradually-from the stately homes of England, the châteaux and museums of France, the great art collections of the U.S.-the noble steeds were assembled. The result: as rich...
MANAGEMENT CHANGE is expected at Brown Co., a major New England paper and pulp maker, whose earnings have been falling. Thomas Mellon Evans, who took over Chicago's Crane Co. (TIME, May 11), has acquired an important stock interest in Brown...