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...ADAMS JR. Pierpont Morgan Library New York City...
...spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display in Manhattan last week, the master's touch is evident in even his most casual work...
...benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced on the Dreyfus bronzes, had them expertly catalogued in three massive volumes. As Duveen had anticipated, the impressive...
...show, held in cooperation with the Pierpont Morgan Library, will stay in Combridge until Feb. 29 and then move to New York. Fogg and the library will present similar shows annually, with each assuming the main task of assembling the collection in alternate years...
Following the appointment of J. Pierpont Morgan '89 as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for 1930, it was revealed that University officials were having difficulty with students who were changing their names on University records with aspirations of social and financial success. One man, in fact, had changed his name on registration cards three times during the same term...