Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gifts, added to the magnificent earlier ones of Andrew Mellon, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Lessing Rosenwald and the Kress Foundation, make the National Gallery a giant...
...matter of fact that Andrew Mellon bought Raphael's famed Alba Madonna from the Russian government in 1931, that he paid a whopping $1,166,400 for the picture, and that it now hangs in Washington's Mellonrbuilt National Gallery. So why on earth should the Reds claim they still have the painting? That question, raised in last week's Art News magazine, put critics in a whirl. It need not have...
...source of Art News's story was Voks Bulletin, a Communist "cultural relations" magazine published in Moscow. What Voks Bulletin actually said was that Leningrad's Hermitage collection includes two Raphaels-The Holy Family and the Conestabile Madonna* which is true. Voks blunderingly illustrated the story with Mellon's Madonna, mislabeled it The Holy Family. People have been sent to Siberia for less...
...Also helping to put the pieces together: Carnegie Institute of Technology's $6,000,000 graduate School of Industrial Administration, founded last year by the W.L. (for William Larimer) and May T. Mellon Foundation...
Yesterday afternoon four Business School men invested a $15 down-payment in a refrigerator. Within three hours six firemen had burst into their Mellon Hall room knocked down the back door and carried the machine...