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...genteel customs of England's landed gentry, the bright pink coats of fox hunters at their favorite sport, the corruption of London's gin-swilling slums, all these are just a sampling of the subjects contained in the pictorial encyclopedia of Paul Mellon's private English painting collection. So vast has it grown that just to hang its choicest items, Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cleared out all its picture galleries 31 years ago. But for all of Virginia's traditional ties to old England, Loyal Yale Grad Mellon ('29) showed...
Main reason: Yale, with the Wai-pole and Boswell papers in its library, has already become a center for English studies. Mellon's collection, valued at over $35 million and including more than 1,000 oils, 3,000 drawings and 4,000 rare books, would provide the ideal visual complement. To house the new gift, Mellon will pay for a new $12 million building to contain a gallery, libraries, lecture and seminar rooms, to be located across the street from the present Yale Art Gallery...
Still to be decided is the final disposition of Mellon's magnificent private stock of French 19th and 20th century paintings. Most likely recipient: Washington's National Gallery...
...George and the Dragon, bought with funds from Ailsa Mellon Bruce, is even rarer and richer, considering its size. So small is the postcard-shaped (5⅜ in. by 4⅛ in.) oil that the gallery has built a magnifying glass in the showcase; so costly is it that the work was auctioned last March for $26,552 per sq. in. At the sale, it was called a Hubert van Eyck, but the National's curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which...
...chief operating officer will be the Central's Perlman, 63, who is more noted for forceful operating know-how than deft administration. And keeping a close eye on moneybags will be the major stockholders: the Central's Allan P. Kirby and the Pennsy's celebrated Mellon family of Pittsburgh...