Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even coincidence smiled on the collection. Three paintings never before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...
...balloting on paintings to meet the indefinable requirement of the chosen theme-that they be masterpieces. But it was plainly a task for taste-and thus one that would have been cheerfully shared by the woman in whose memory the benefit collection was organized, New York City Art Patron and Philanthropist Adele Rosenwald Levy, who died 13 months...
Holy Pallas. Translator Fitzgerald, a Roman Catholic, is highly respectful of the supernatural goings-on in Homer. He considers Pallas-Odysseus' patron and therefore responsible for the workings of the hero's mind-to have her near equivalent in the Holy Ghost of the Christian Trinity. Here, too, may be seen the theological base of the incandescent Greek intelligence: faith and reason live together...
...Chisholm wouldn't have done for me. But she was my friend first and my benefactress second-whatever I turned out to be, and even if I didn't turn out to be much of anything." Says Mrs. Chisholm of Leontyne: "Don't call me her patron. I don't think I have ever 'patronized' Leontyne. I have only loved her. I'm just where she came from...
Died. Sterling Morton, 75, art patron and philanthropist, who was board chairman of the salt company founded by his father; after gallstone surgery; in Santa Barbara, Calif...