A Treasure Hunt For America's Finest; Corcoran Mixes Its Best With Beauties From N.Y.'s Century Club

The Washington Post | August 2, 1993| | Copyright

If you're not rich, it helps to be imaginative. And imagination is what the Corcoran Gallery's exhibition program seems to have acquired, at last, with the arrival of Jack Cowart, the museum's new deputy director and chief curator.

The first visible evidence, just in, comes in the form of what might have been just another humdrum loan show - 40 19th-century American paintings borrowed from the Century Association, New York's oldest and most exclusive arts-related club, founded in 1847. Century's members - many of whom paid the $50 initiation fee by donating a painting to the club - have ...

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