Art: Tranquil Treasure

A masterpiece," says Art Critic Alfred Frankfurter, "is—like the President of the United States—what is elected as one. Confidently voting their judgment, Frankfurter, the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., and a committee of other top-rank critics and collectors last week put on display at Manhattan sWildenstein Gallery 69 paintings and drawings, in a benefit show simply and coolly labeled "Masterpieces."

Gathered out of 26 museums from coast to coast and from Florida to Montreal and from 27 private collections of such art patrons as David Rockefeller Henry Ford II and...

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