There was never much doubt that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a onetime Sorbonne art student, would turn out to be the most art-conscious of all First Ladies, but her ideas about what belonged in a "period house" have proved intriguing. Last week, with the announcement that she had borrowed eleven paintings by five U.S. artists from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, her collection numbered 63 items, mostly hung in the President's office or in the family quarters. Lest she be accused of depriving the public of its treasures, she had accepted only canvases...
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