Since art follows money, oil-rich Texas is becoming increasingly rich in oil paintings. To help catch the flow, Houston's art museum is readying a new wing; in San Antonio a new museum chock-full of French impressionists will open next month. In Dallas, the preview of the art exhibition at the state fair drew 900 people last weektwice as many as ever before. And the next night the spanking new $500,000 art museum opened at Fort Worth.
Guest of honor at the Fort Worth opening was Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, who went so far as to tell the Texans...
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