The Touch of Class; J. Carter Brown Made Masterpieces Accessible to Washington's Multitudes

The Washington Post | June 19, 2002| | Copyright

Even in his last years, while jousting with the cancer whose complications killed him Monday at age 67, there was something buoyant, almost boyish, about J. Carter Brown. Many well-fed gentlemen thicken as they age. Brown stayed always lean. Many practiced diplomats settle into stolid ways. Brown thought sprightly thoughts.

He was a populist patrician. Brown mattered to this city -- not only to the National Gallery of Art, which he directed and awakened, and not only to the Commission of Fine Arts, which he chaired with high panache from 1971 until late last month. He also dispensed boons to ...

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