One of the few selfish pleasures of the self-effacing wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. is to shop for bargains among the works of oncoming modern painters. As vice president and trustee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, she has put good advice to good purpose by specializing in water colors and drawings by U.S. artists. Three months ago she gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by...
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