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SATURDAY: New To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. The 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical and long-running Broadway hit features Robert Morse recreating his role as J. Pierpont Finch. CH.10. 9 p.m. Color...
...19th centuries, some of the best painting in Europe was done in watercolor. The brilliant achievements of English art in particular, from Rowlandson to Turner, were largely based on the freedom, speed and unique sparkle of the transparent wash. One forgets what the medium could do. Last week the Pierpont Morgan Library produced a salutary reminder, in the form of a show called "English Drawings and Watercolors, 1550-1850." The 150 items are drawn from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, and they are nearly all of staggering quality...
...arts," wrote Art Historian Millard Meiss. "Between 1380 and 1400 every great cycle of miniatures in France was commissioned by the Duke of Berry." A superb exhibition of 14th and 15th century French miniature painting, organized by Professor Meiss, is now on view at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library. Inevitably, its central character is the bottle-nosed prince who made it possible...
...Duke of Berry's belief in a connection between riches and virtue was quite like J. Pierpont Morgan's. He collected nearly every imaginable kind of art object, from panel paintings to antique cameos, from medallions to tapestries, and even a unicorn's horn given to him by the Pope. The result was a triumph of manic connoisseurship-the greatest private collection in Europe...
...lives, and grandly entertains, in one of the city's last great houses. From the felicitously festooned walls of his century-old mansion on Gramercy Park, Sonnenberg selected 64 portrait drawings of the past 150-odd years for an exhibition that opened last week at the Pierpont Morgan Library. The show includes a Van Gogh, two Modiglianis and a Saul Steinberg (of Sonnenberg). A rich potpourri of New York, N.Y., turned out for the opening-literary, artistic, social-a p.r. man's dream. One well-known mustached face was missing, though-Ben Sonnenberg...