Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painter Tom Benton, clad only in a pair of blue jeans, was busy getting in his hay on Martha's Vineyard when the good news arrived. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had just spent $2,000 for Benton's latest portrait, New England Editor (see cut). It had been some time since the champing champion of American-school painting had received such a boost...
Some museumgoers wished that Benton had done his drinking before starting to paint. To them, his portrait looked as inert and uninspired as a coil of rope. But the conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...
...will, Bachelor Ackland had left over a million dollars, the bulk of his fortune, to Duke University for an art museum. If Duke refused it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. In third place was Rollins; but after his visit to Rollins, William Ackland was thinking of moving it up to first...
Then Ackland was invited to Duke, had such a pleasant time that he knocked North Carolina and Rollins out of his will entirely. He bequeathed to Duke not only the art museum, but also his mortal remains to be buried in the museum apse. With these affairs settled, in 1940 he died...
Last week a District of Columbia Court ruled that in his last days Ackland had been definitely partial to Rollins and that Rollins, therefore, should get the money. Unless the decision is reversed on appeal, Rollins will have its museum, and Ackland's bones a place to rest...