Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collecting, however, was once an institution of another character. That era which produced the collection of Pierpont Morgan is gone forever. It was a period in which a taste for art came hand-in-hand with a quaint, baroque conception known as "objects d'art," a period surviving more than one generation and producing a few diversified and immense collections. Such a phenomenon is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, the Frick collection of New York, and even, to some extent, the still inaccessible treasures of that formidable eccentric, Alfred Barnes of Philadelphia...
Perhaps most remarkable in the case of Morgan is the refinement of taste which produced so intimate a collection, no less fine for its subdued key. So grotesque an aesthetic faux paus as the acquisitions of the William Randolph Hearst dynasty, or even as sincere but visionless an affair as the John Ringling Museum testifies to how far wrong the best intentioned affluence can go. But J. Pierpont Morgan, caring not at all for magnitude, sought quality alone...
...exhibition, a traveling presentation of some of the collection's finest examples, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Morgan Library in New York. Here is one of those exquisite philanthropies made possible by a successful application of the philosophy that the public be damned...
Born. To Yvonne de Carlo, 35, sultry brunette cinemadventuress and Robert Drew Morgan, 42, muscled Hollywood stunt man: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Michael Robert. Weight...
...performance of the evening was turned in by James Matisoff as Sir Epicure Mammon; he creeps about the stage, delivering his passionate outbursts, alternately joyful and despondent, and always excellent. He was ably supported by Nathan Douthit--with amazing grimaces and thunderous orations, and Carl Morgan--the stomach-stroking pastor with a thirst for gold...