Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen months ago a Manhattan art dealer showed Director Heil the marble bust, which Heil from his days as a fellow of the Institute of Art History in Florence readily identified as a smaller copy of Cellini's bronze bust of Cosimo in the National Museum. Back in San Francisco, Dr. Heil traced references to such a work in the Cellini literature, built up documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence...
...most flamboyant art collector in South America is a bouncing, bantam Brazilian with the resounding name of Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello. What "Chato" collects goes on display in a public museum in Sao Paulo (pop. 3,300,000), and in just eleven years he has made it the hemisphere's finest outside the U.S. Chato pays for much of the art himself, and gets the rest by a grandiose form of flattery. As publisher of 32 newspapers and five magazines, and as owner of 24 radio and three TV stations, he can elaborately praise any rich...
...twice been a Senator and is now Brazil's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, is famed for his sudden impulses. In 1946 Chatô met a visiting Italian art critic, Pietro Maria Bardi, embraced him joyfully and said: "You must make a museum for me." Almost at once, new Museum Director Bardi moved into the unfinished 34-story headquarters of Chateaubriand's Associated Dailieschain, found the great new Museum of Art in Sao Paulo hailed in headlines while there was still nothing to show in the newspaper building but raw concrete walls...
...Banker (and former Ambassador to Washington) Walther Moreira Salles, Industrialist Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari (occasional playmate of Linda Christian). Chatô himself is the most generous giver, but seems almost ashamed to admit that he ever had to reach into his own pocket. Says Director Bardi: "This is the first museum created by publicity...
Ponca City-born Robert Camblin thus reported his painter's dream come true, a year abroad with nothing to do but soak up the scenery, visit the museums and paint his head off. The results of his year in Italy-along with paintings by 59 other equally lucky artists-are on view this week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. They were picked by the museum's new director, Lloyd Goodrich, from among the 194 U.S. artists who have worked abroad on U.S. Government (Fulbright) scholarships, paid in local currencies from the sale...