Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official" architecture while refusing to compromise its own inventiveness. On June 1 that structure opens to the public. It is, of course, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., designed by Architect I.M. Pei at a cost of $94.4 million furnished by Paul Mellon, his late sister and the Mellon Foundation (TIME...
...National Gallery of Art is sheer delight. Thanks to Mr. Mellon for such a magnificent gift, and thanks to TIME for telling others about...
...idyllic Paul Mellon's English summers must have been, that years later millions of dollars should have been used for what you call systematic collecting and I call pillage of much of Britain's artistic soul...
Robert Hughes' generosity in praising the National Gallery's new East Building [May 8] is far too restrained. It's an achievement in land use, light play and mass as visceral as the pyramids. Thank God this country has a Cheops like Paul Mellon to allow us the esthetic bravado of the likes...
...every visitor to the museum will notice, there is a small label next to the art object telling who the donor is, Mellon, Kress...