Art: Great Bequest

Thrice has the Metropolitan Museum of Art been notably, spectacularly enriched by the munificent bequests of great and rich collectors. The John Pierpont Morgan and Benjamin Altman collections, both given in 1913, spread paintings, carvings, sculpture, jewelry, porcelains, tapestries, furniture through long galleries for the benefit of the U. S. public. And all last week thousands of people shuffled back and forth through four galleries, two corridors, to see the latest, possibly the greatest of the museum's gifts. At one bound the Metropolitan, already an...

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