Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belonged to Valencia's 350-year-old Real Colegio del Corpus Christi. Councilman Guillot's main problem was that he knew nothing about the missing El Greco, not even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years ago, an El Greco painting of a Camaldolite Order monastery in the Colegio's attic...
...found at the bottom of a pile of some 60 dusty paintings a gloomy landscape that could have been painted by El Greco. Beneath the grime of nearly 100 years of neglect, the picture proved to be the long sought masterpiece. Said one of Madrid's Prado Museum officials: "The brush strokes of El Greco are inimitable, unmistakable. I say it, the director says it, the restorers say it. The picture is El Greco." Valued at $100,000, it will now hang once again in the Real Colegio del Corpus Christi...
Easterner Stallknecht has had her greatest success in the West, with a traveling show this summer that went to Colorado Springs, Pasadena, San Diego and San Francisco. In the exhibition catalogue, Art Historian Lloyd Goodrich of Manhattan's Whitney Museum went full out for Stallknecht's work, describing her as "a 'natural'; she puts things down on canvas with unhesitating directness, as if reality guided her brush. But her realism is never merely photographic. Sometimes her patterns take on an expressionistic freedom, with pronounced rhythms, suggesting Van Gogh-or, nearer home, Marsden Hartley. But such parallels...
...they considered it at all) about as innocuous as the White Rock girl, wondered what all the shouting had been about. This week they will have a chance to see for themselves. Bought by Philadelphia Main Liner William Coxe Wright, September Morn was presented to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Current market value of the pre-World War I sensation...
...know on earth, and all ye need to know." In the next century the vases aroused the collector's instinct in the late William Randolph Hearst. He began buying in 1901, owned 400 when he died 50 years later. Last year New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bought 65 of the Hearst vases, which have proved so popular that the Met is leaving them on special exhibition for a full year...