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...collection belongs to Paul Mellon, the son of an English mother, a graduate of Yale and Cambridge, and (by inheritance from his famous father, Pittsburgh Financier Andrew Mellon) a collector of taste and sensitivity. From 1907 until 1914, Paul Mellon spent almost every summer in Britain, still remembers "laughing ladies in white with gay parasols, men in impeccable white flannels and striped blazers, and always behind them, behind everything, the grass was green." He developed a taste for fox hunting, for racing and for thoroughbreds; when in 1936 he bought his first 18th century English painting, it was a picture...
...Slowly Mellon added to this collection, although for years he concentrated on French impressionists. Then, four years ago, he began to buy English art of the period in quantity, with the help of British Art Historian Basil Taylor. Today Mellon's oils, drawings and watercolors, dating roughly from 1700 to 1850, include artists of whom even noted critics like John Ruskin and Roger Fry seemed to have been unaware. There are landscapes and animals, intimate "conversation pieces," sports pictures and seascapes as well as portraits -the entire era, in fact, tidily defined by the major artists who began...
...expects to take a major hand in the implementation of Oakland's new master plan, which calls for the expenditure of $750 million over the next ten years in renovating and improving the surrounding area. The program is being billed as Phase 2 in Pittsburgh's massive Mellon-sponsored "Renaissance," which has already virtually rebuilt the downtown area into the famed Golden Triangle...
JOHN JAY McCLOY NEIL HOSLER McCLOY ANDREW G. McNAUGHTON HAROLD MEDINA RICHARD K. MELLON PIERRE MENDES-FRANCE GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ETHEL MERMAN PERLE MESTA ROBERT B. MEYNER JOSÉ MIRÓ CARDONA RAYMOND MOLEY JEAN MONNET JAMES MORAN DELESSEPS S. MORRISON CHARLES G. MORTIMER LUIS MUNOZ MAŔIN PATRICE MUNSEL CLINTON MURCHISON JR. JOHN MURCHISON ROBERT D. MURPHY JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY...
...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...