Word: wertheimers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking of such mundane things as tax deductions is one way not to describe the success of our next subject: The Maurice Wertheim Bequest and Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman--on view at the Fogg Museum of Art through July. For contrary to the current rules of today's heavy buying in the art works of the 19th and 20th centuries, these large and very impressive collections have been built up more through an everlasting appreciation of art than an annual fear of Uncle's long-armed tax collectors...
...Both the Wertheim and Pearlman Collections have the consistency of excellence and caring taste which establish great collections: their exhibition, along with the Fogg's own fine 19th century collection, leads Miss Agnes Mongan, Acting Director of the Fogg, to remark with justifiable pride: "You would have to go a long way--either across America or upon the Continent--to find a better 19th century collection this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet...
...Maurice Wertheim bequest (it eventually goes en bloc to the Fogg) is also on view upstairs at the Fogg, where its future owners have complemented the collection's brilliance with a well-balanced, elegantly proportioned, and grandly spaced installation--which looks good from any spot. The 19th century gallery is particularly impressive with Van Gogh's Self Portrait, the primus inter pares of the lot. The brilliant lime-green brushwork which forms a halo around the artist's head is both economical and expressive and the demonic eyes with yellow pupils, the red defining lines of the nose and mouth...
...Harris ran into stormy weather with the board. About 25% of Northwest's common stock is owned by Wertheim & Co., or held for customers of two New York brokerage firms, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. They have a tight grip on the board. But Harris felt they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year...
...Drama opened with an enrollment of 65. The school had no official connection with the University, although three quarters of its students were also undergraduates at either Harvard or Radcliffe. The administration was entirely in the hands of an alumni board of governors, including Simonson, Abbott, Davis, Macgowan, Jones, Wertheim and Ames. These men formed a visiting faculty which supplemented the permanent staff by coming to Cambridge periodically, when their professional duties allowed, to give lecture series and work with students on productions. This system seemed to strike the perfect balance between the professional and the academic, and there...