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Collecting
Collections and Hobbies In almost all cultures and societies, children have collected a broad spectrum of items. Although the activity seems to be universal, very little has been written on this subject. And even though collecting has played an important part in many individuals' lives, it is... Read more |
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Collector v. Day
Collector v. Day, 11 Wall. (78 U.S.) 113 (1871), argued 3 Feb. 1871, decided 3 Apr. 1871 by vote of 8 to 1; Nelson for the Court, Bradley in dissent. Collector v. Day was one in a line of cases involving intergovernmental tax immunities, and, as such, traced its origins to the latter part of Chief... Read more |
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Sergei Shchukin
Shchukin, Sergei (1854–1936). Russian collector and patron, born in Moscow. He was a member of a large merchant family with diverse business interests, and he had four brothers who also were enthusiastic art collectors. His serious collecting career began in 1897 when he bought a Monet... Read more |
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Museum devoted to art since 1940, opened in 1979. Pontus Hulten was the first director. The founders and benefactors have included several prominent local collectors of modern art, among them Robert A. Rowen (1910– ), Taft Schreiber... Read more |
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publican
publican [Lat.,=state employee], in ancient Rome, man who was employed by the state government under contract. As early as c.200 BC there was a class of men in Rome accustomed to undertaking contracts involving public works and tax collecting; the tax collectors made the most profit. The publicans... Read more |
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John Quinn
Quinn, John (1870–1924). American lawyer, collector, and patron. Quinn was of Irish ancestry and came to collecting through purchasing manuscripts of Irish literary works. He did not start collecting paintings and sculpture until after the turn of the century, but he then rapidly became a... Read more |
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Pavel Tretyakov
Tretyakov, Pavel (b Moscow, 27 Dec. 1832; d Moscow, 16 Dec. 1898). Russian businessman and art collector. He made a fortune in the textile industry and devoted much of it to his passion for art. Initially he bought Western works, but he soon came to specialize in Russian art and by 1860 he had... Read more |
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Ambroise Vollard
Ambroise Vollard , 1867-1939, French art dealer, collector, and publisher. He was noted for his early recognition and sponsorship of leading artists of the school of Paris , especially Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso (for whom he held the first one-man exhibitions), and Rouault. He made... Read more |
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Marinus van Reymerswaele
Marinus van Reymerswaele (b ?Roymerswaele, c.1490; d ?Middelburg, ?1567). Netherlandish painter, presumably from Roymerswaele (once in Zeeland but now under the sea). He specialized in two types of picture, both with more or less life-size half-length figures: representations of St Jerome in his... Read more |
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Widowers Houses
...Sartorius's property, and that he himself and his miserable rent collector Lickcheese are merely intermediaries: ‘You are the principal.’ Blanche, revealing a passionate and violent nature, rejects Trench for his hesitations. In the third... |
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Chatwin, (Charles) Bruce
...travelled widely in Asia, Africa, and Europe, developing a passionate interest in nomads, and in the early 1970s worked on the...of Aboriginal creation myths. Utz (1988) is a study of a collector of Meissen porcelain in Prague. What Am I Doing Here (1989... |
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20,000 `passionate' collectors expected at weekend expo
...something, and 20,000 of the most passionate collectors are expected to descend on the...Exposition. Just how devoted are collectors of goods such as figurines...one survey. "It's a very passionate pastime for these people... |
 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
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The passionate art collector: trustee puts collection on display at the MFA.
...Renoir. And, she took him often to the Museum of Fine Arts. Those early experiences inspired Black, who is now a passionate collector of painting and sculpture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His outstanding collection of Impressionist... |
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Faces of time: the passionate collector. (antique jewelry) (The Proper Ones:...
Faces of Time: The passionate collector NEW YORK -- "I collect collections," says Sheila Shwartz, who can drum up Thirties' fishing poles, 19th-century crystal... |
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A new life for old photos: the vintage photography market is full of...
...old photographs to a growing number of collectors. Vintage photographs can include anything...vintage photographs is that clients are collectors who tend to come back to buy more photographs...Novak said. "Vintage photography collectors are people who have a bug and ... |
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Passionate Art Collectors
...Jewish News 09-22-2000 Passionate ART CollectorsFor their first...theUniversity Print Club, where collectors can meet area artists and...Feldman, guru tomany Cleveland collectors.Like true collectors, buying takes precedence... |
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people; Kilroys was (and still is) here; The Minneapolis shop owned by Kevin...
...Wurlitzer jukeboxes. By 1990, when he no longer had time to do outside repairs, he offered his friend Steven Nault, a collector and repairman of antiques, a bench in the Kilroys workshop for his Pop's Coin-Ops. Hammerbeck met Panser through his... |
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Passionate collector
...present show includes some choice offerings without suggesting that Leverhulme was either an inspired or especially committed collector of works on paper. Overwhelmingly these acquisitions reinforced his more enthusiastic collection of large-scale paintings... |
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A methodical pursuit: a passionate collector puts his stash of U.S. history...
...Caren set out years ago to find important items representing every key events in modern history. Caren--a well-known collector, author, and dealer--looked for manuscripts and documents, newspapers, broadsides, autographs, photographs, and... |
 "Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)")
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Neeraj Jain, a passionate stamp collector, an achiever
Amritsar, Sept. 27 -- Neeraj Jain, a passionate stamp collector from Punjab's Amritsar district, boasts of some...after independence. 'In my childhood, I met some collectors who inspired me by and guided me in my effort to... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Matthew Dietel remembers accompanying his father, a passionate art collector,...
...Bloomberg Matthew Dietel remembers accompanying his father, a passionate art collector, on Sunday visits in the 1950s to the Angermuseum in the...state tightened control of art sales, targeting private collectors and dealers. Accused of operating illegally as an art... |
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