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...setting was University Commons, the massive undergraduate dining hall at Yale University. But the British ambience was decidedly fitting, for the occasion was the formal opening of the Yale Center for British Art, a four-story chest of art treasures donated by Mellon, 69, class of '29. The collection contains more than 1,700 paintings, 5,000 prints, 7,000 drawings and 20,000 rare books, and it is valued at close to $200 million. It ranges from the bejeweled, beribboned portraits of the Elizabethan period onward to the nobly blooded horses of George Stubbs. Its special strength lies...
...Ramsbotham, British Ambassador to the U.S., and Kingman Brewster, president of Yale and the newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. More than 800 distinguished guests, including the directors of London's Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum plus multimillionaire Art Collector Paul Mellon...
...East Asian Studies program has received $600,000 from the Mellon Foundation as part of a fund drive to establish a permanent endowment for the East Asian Research Center...
...Mellon gift is one of 11 grants presented to East Asian centers in the country...
...center may receive $600,000 from the Ford Foundation if it can be matched by three times that amount. The Mellon gift will be used to help reach the $1.8 million needed...