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According to Cuno, after his wife died and his children estranged themselves from him by marrying beneath their station, Winthrop “sought the kind of perfection in art that he couldn’t find in the real world...
...Winthrop specifically asked that his collection be primarily at the disposal of the Harvard community, even at the expense of its worldwide renown...
...interest in art was inspired during his undergraduate years by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, after whom Harvard’s yearly Norton lecture on art is named. Norton believed, as did Winthrop, that art plays an enormous role in human civilization...
...Winthrop, of the illustrious Boston family, turned early to art after a career in finance...
...Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings From the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University” will travel to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, from March 15 to May 26; the National Gallery of Art in London from June 25 to Sept. 14, 2003; the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Oct. 20, 2003, to Jan. 11, 2004; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington from...