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There are probably almost as many reasons for collecting works of art as there are for producing them in the first place. To the painter, the mind of the patron is something of a mystery. To the father of the work, its raison-d'etre is clear and inevitable. But those who consider themselves amateurs, if not connoisseurs, more often than not have other ideas. The most puissant dealers have proven to be agile psychologists, time and time again...
Grizzled, sly, and a bit mad, Jimson lives in a houseboat moored in a London harbor, and continues painting on a weekly dole from his old, unbelievably frail patron. His epic visions, to be painted on the walls of living rooms, in the naves of churches, on the sides of ships never turn out exactly as he would like, yet he is incontrovertibly one of the great painters of the age. If no one else knows it, he does, and he is content to wait...
...century. Washington's Corcoran Gallery has been a staunch patron of American art. This week it marks its 100th birthday with a two-city celebration: a loan exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery of outstanding pictures drawn from its collection and its regular biennial roundup of contemporary U.S. paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European...
...Country & St. Maurice. First indication of the trend, according to Dr. C. Stanley Lowell, managing editor of the P.O.A.U. monthly, Church and State, was a drive last spring by the Catholic Holy Name Society at infantry-minded Fort Benning, Ga. to promote St. Maurice as patron saint of the infantry.* A program was drawn up. calling for erection at Benning of a $2,300 statue of the saint, the printing of 30,000 folders on his life, wide distribution of St. Maurice medals and the presentation of St. Maurice scrolls to Fort Benning visitors...
...Barbara (dates unknown) was said to have been martyred by her idolatrous father for refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods, whereupon a bolt of lightning struck him and he burned to death. Hence, by association, she is patron saint of gunners...