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...prints, and a study archive of 90,000 photographs. Their value is not publicly known, but it stands well over $100 million, since Mellon's bequest to Yale forms the most systematic collection of British art, mainly 18th and early 19th century, in existence outside London's Tate Gallery. Mellon has thus in a few years given away buildings and works of art worth rather more than $200 million. Even granted the parlous state of the dollar, no other living American has committed himself to art patronage on this scale. (Paul Getty endowed his mock-Pompeian Getty Museum...
...results of Lipset's survey have been widely quoted in the media and used to create a very distorted and superficial picture of American professors, John T. Tate '46, professor of Mathematics, said yesterday...
...late, three magnificent exhibitions in London have sharply revised our ideas on the stature of English art in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The first, in 1974, was the Turner retrospective at the Royal Academy; the second was Constable at the Tate Gallery. Now it is William Blake's turn. Through May, some 340 of his works are on view at the Tate, in a comprehensive show organized by Art Historian Martin Butlin: paintings, drawings, watercolors, woodcuts, color prints, illustrated books...
...bought away from England. Their owner, Major John Lycett Wills, found that he had to sell off the pair. As recently as 1933 they had brought only £10 apiece; this year their worth was estimated at $1.8 million. Generously the owner offered them to London's Tate Gallery for a bargain price of $1.4 million, giving Director Sir Norman Reid till Christmas to raise the money...
After plastering London with handsome SAVE THE STUBBS posters, the Tate managed to collect $900,000. By November they were still short, when aid came from an unexpected source. Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who recently gave much of his priceless collection of 18th and 19th century British paintings to Yale, had been considered the most likely foreign buyer if the Tate fell short. But Mellon, a self-styled "galloping Anglophile," felt the paintings should stay in England. He contributed four paintings from his private collection, two Vuillards, a Bonnard and a Giacometti, to a benefit auction. They went for about...