Sam Wagstaff, a major collector of this visual art that uses silver, later turned to collecting silver
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J. Paul Getty Museum Presents Photographs from the Collection of ...  The acquisition of Samuel Wagstaff's collection of photographs in 1984 was a landmark ... Wagstaff attended Yale University and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York ... Within a few short years, Wagstaff became a preeminent collector in a still ... he turned to nineteenth-century American silver, and quickly amassed one of...
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Sam Wagstaff, 65, A Curator and Photography Collector  Jan 16, 1987 ... LEAD: Sam Wagstaff, a former museum curator who became a leading ... another collection, he turned to 19th-century American silver. A show of more than 100 examples from his silver collection will ... Known in the art world for his keen and adventurous eye, Mr. Wagstaff acquired ... Please try again later.
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Articles  Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures  His celebrity pics of Eurotrash and rich collectors, or actual celebs such as Debbie ..... That protest turned out to solidify the artist's legend, and the documentary ... He even chose a lover, Sam Wagstaff, then a major art world tastemaker, ..... the elderly San Francisco grande dame, the bright silver studs on the back of his big...
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Sam Wagstaff - Wikipedia  Samuel Jones Wagstaff, Jr. (4 November 1921  14 January 1987) was an American art curator ... He later worked in the field of advertising in the 1950s, which he hated. ... In addition to his curatorial work, Wagstaff was a noted collector, just like his ... A show of more than 100 examples from his silver collection opened on...
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Two different TV movies about this pianist and piano collector ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... video icon  Sam Wagstaff, a major collector of this visual art that uses silver, later turned # Quiz # Question. 0:29. Amazing Videos. No views...
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Great River | American History Lives at American Heritage  With their coming, the golden haze of the Indian story along the river began to lift. ... and as it reached the nearest anchored ship, the fleet was already making sail. ... Their skin was tough and swarthy, taking the light with a faint tarnish of gold, ... silver or brass rivets, hung the sword with basket guard, silver wire-wrapped hilt...
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Paul Gauguin - Wikipedia  Eugne Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until ... Many of his paintings were in the possession of Russian collector Sergei .... he had discerned opportunities when visiting Pissarro there the previous summer. .... At first, the 'negro hut' in which they lived suited him, and he enjoyed...
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A Cezanne Leads a $128 Million Auction of the Whitney Art Collection  May 11, 1999 ... Mr. Wynn has a history of buying art from some of this country's most distinguished families; in 1996 he bought a Manet once owned by Henry and Louisine Havemeyer, ... Their collection was rivaled only by those of the Greek shipping ... artist's high period of analytical Cubism, was estimated at $4 million...
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Silver as Money: A History of US Silver Coins - Silver Coins  The Coinage Act of 1792 establishes the First Mint in Philadelphia, PA and ... Oh, and for anyone caught debasing (replacing the silver with other metals) or ... the quarter is today, yet the half-dime, half-dollar, and silver dollar were all minted earlier. ..... Silver content was removed in 1965, however, this coin and its design...
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A Father-Daughter Sojourn to Chicago. By Mark Anthony Wilson.  He agreed to meet us at the airport the night of our arrival, which saved me the ... There are now five buildings here over 1,000 feet tall, thrusting their ... The first painting Elena wanted to see was  A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Seurat (1886). ... The Day of The Gods by Paul Gauguin (1894), The Bath by Mary Cassatt...
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The Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York | GypsyNester ...  The Rockwell Museum's emphasis is certainly unexpected for this neck of ... Back in 1976, Bob and Hertha Rockwell donated their collection of Western art to the city of ... Other well-known works in the collection include Albert Bierstadt's stunning ... know right where he can get the glass - as Corning is famous for their glass.
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art  Founded in 1842 and featuring collection of American and European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. Collection highlights, exhibits and program...
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Reading: Photography | Art Appreciation  The first attempts to capture an image were made from a camera obscura, ... During the 1830's Louis Daguerre, having worked with Niepce earlier, developed a ... to capture images on film by using a polished copper plate treated with silver. ... In its early beginning, photography was considered to offer a more true image...
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The Daguerreotype & The Calotype: Photography's Parallel Histories  Jul 24, 2014 ... An additional improvement was made when Daguerre followed a suggestion by ... One would start with a plate of copper that has been coated in silver, and begin ... After all is completed in camera, it was time to develop the image. ... In the 1830's Talbot, frustrated with his attempts at drawing via a Camera...
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Thirty pieces of silver - Wikipedia  Judas receiving thirty pieces of silver for betraying Jesus, by Mattia Preti, c. 1640. Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an .... He takes the coins and throws them "to the potter". Klaas Schilder...
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J. Paul Getty's Million-Dollar Mistake | Los Angeles County Museum ...  Jul 6, 2009 ... Getty's dollars-per-square-inch math only seconded his unfortunate ... Getty was said to have been shocked when the Metropolitan Museum paid $2.3 million for its large Rembrandt Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in 1961. ... the Metropolitan Museum bought another painting of a black guy,...
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Conceptual drawing: recent work by Bernhard Sachs, Mike Parr ...  Jan 28, 2010 ... And then the last, not least, the most important thing is that some transfer ... which he called social sculpture, would transform art and life. ... Drawing is both the first step towards abstraction, yet also an .... an intensely charged line made by gauging directly into the metal plate. .... Each tree was frottaged.
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1921 Silver Dollars - Premier Coin Galleries  1921 Silver Dollars come in two style and designs that are very popular and ... Although the Morgan Silver Dollar was minted for several years from 1878 to 1921 (with a break from ... Morgan Silver Dollars are named after George T. Morgan, the man ... The first collection of the 1921 Peace Silver Dollar was requested as a...
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Silver as Money: A History of US Silver Coins - Silver Coins  From this Act would eventually come the following silver coins, the Silver Dollar, half ... A total of 561,045 coins were minted, with the 1796 Draped Bust Quarter being the rarest. .... This would eventually lead to the Coinage Act of 1965. ... In 1971, silver was completely eliminated from the coin, yet the half dollar had been so...
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The Dealer and Miss Jones - Jennifer Jones - a tribute  As 86-year-old Norton Simon lay dying, museum curators circled, hoping to ... Simon wants to talk about the Pasadena museum that bears her late husband's name. ... In another scenario, Simon's art might take a backseat to Jones's favorite ... a self-described existential businessman, managed to put together a collection of...