Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surging popularity of U.S. painting in the art centers of Western Europe apparently does not stop short at the Iron Curtain. Proof of this is arriving at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art in the form of scores of warm letters of appreciation from painters, sculptors, critics, curators and librarians-many of them speaking out to the West for the first time-from the muted lands of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania. What triggered this spontaneous outpouring of sentiment was a single book: Three Hundred Years of American Painting by Alexander Eliot, an associate editor of TIME, which...
Hopeful of opening direct channels of communication with art movements in the satellite countries, the Whitney Museum had sent some 300 copies of the book overseas addressed to museums and individual artists. From Warsaw and Cracow, Budapest and Szeged, Prague, Zatec and Bucharest came a stream of letters, catalogues, books and even original drawings and engravings from artists who wished to reciprocate the Whitney's gesture. The letters were scrupulously nonpolitical. Nearly all had two points in common: 1) unstinting praise for the book, and 2) surprise that American painting was so good. One Rumanian intellectual, unreported for years...
Lucky in Angels. In matters of art, Cleveland has been lucky in its millionaires; three big trust funds finance the museum. But far and away the kindest angel for the new wing was Leonard Colton Hanna Jr., nephew of famed President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark"') Hanna, and big stockholder in M. A. Hanna Co. (iron ore, coal, lake shipping, steel), who died last October at 67. Bachelor Hanna became an art collector soon after graduating from Yale ('13), early keyed his private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum...
When in 1954 it became clear to Director William M. Milliken, 68, that the museum was rapidly outgrowing its Grecian-style building, Leonard Hanna agreed to put up nearly $4,000,000 for a new wing-if the sum could be matched by private subscription. To Director Milliken's delight, more money than was needed came rolling in. Closing the museum for eleven months, the trustees added a U-shaped wing in red and grey granite, enclosing a landscaped sculpture court and pool. But the real novelty is the wing's intimate, informal interior. The corps of guards...
Final Fillip. To maintain the museum and help keep art flowing into Cleveland at a rate of about $1,000,000 worth a year, Hanna willed the museum $20 million in gilt-edged securities. And as a final fillip, last week the museum exhibited the 35 paintings Donor Hanna bequeathed from his own, never exhibited collection. Among them: Manet's Berthe Morisot, Renoir's The Apple Seller, and a late Van Gogh entitled Mademoiselle Ravonx-worth altogether more than...