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Over, thirty paintings, drawings, and sculptures by modern artists--a collection of "fabulous quality"--have been left to the Fogg Museum in the will of Maurice Wertheim '06, Director John P. Coolidge '35 of the Museum revealed yesterday...
Coolidge stated that he had not seen the exact conditions of the will, and therefore could not tell if there were any restrictions on the bequest. The paintings may be kept by Mrs. Wertheim, however, until her death, at which time they will be moved to the Museum. It is also probable that they will have to be kept in a unit...
...paintings are very carefully selected," Coolidge said, "and the collection, though recent, is of a consistently high level." Wertheim has long been a patron of the Fogg Museum, and this collection was exhibited in 1946 at Fogg...
...paintings are as good as exists," Coolidge said, "and by in large are characteristic of the artists represented." Wertheim bought the best possible examples for his collection, with an eye to leaving them to the Museum. In the later years of his collection, he thought of their future maximum teaching usefulness at Harvard, buying three paintings of Renoir, for instance, which illustrated his early, middle, and late periods...
...Wertheim listed 33 works of art when the will was drawn in 1948, but there may have been additions and changes in the collection since. Wertheim was always prepared to improve his collection by trading or purchasing new works, and it is not known what other pieces, if any, have been added in the period between the drawing of the will and his death...