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...last ten centuries would require several years. Last week nearly 1,000 years of Europe's art was visible in a day at the Cleveland Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary Exhibition, celebrating the Great Lakes Exposition. Borrowed by suave, dapper, erudite Director William Mathewson Milliken in the astonishingly short time of five months, from U. S. museums and private collectors, from the Louvre in Paris and from half a dozen Italian collectors, Cleveland's paintings made a show more comprehensive and legible than Chicago's two great art exhibits at the Century of Progress (TIME...
...Christian art in the West. Most of the altarpiece is still in Siena, but two superb little panels showing a 14th Century Italian Christ resurrecting Lazarus and meeting the Samaritan woman fell into the hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who let Cleveland exhibit them last week. Said Director Milliken, "The Duccios are the prize catch of the show. I just can't believe they're here...
...reason Cleveland was able to assemble so imposing a show was that collectors' resistance to lending their treasures had been largely broken three years ago by the art-beggars from Chicago's Century of Progress. Notable Milliken borrowings were Memling's Portrait of a Man Holding a Carnation from J. P. Morgan, a Titian and a Raphael from Paris' haughty Louvre Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland...
...thoroughly happy man last week was Board Chairman James Milliken Speers, 73, of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan drygoods store. Besides serving McCutcheon's for 55 years, Merchant Speers, a good Presbyterian, has been active in many a pious cause. He is glowingly proud of his six sons. Two are in the service of his prosperous store and the rest in the service of God. Son Thomas Guthrie Speers is pastor of Baltimore's Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Son Peter teaches in Forman Christian College, Lahore, India; Son James Jr. at Shanghai American School. Last week Son Theodore Cuyler...
Cleveland: Director William Mathewson Milliken of the Cleveland Museum...