Art: Saddle & Sirloin

Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club, famed hangout of U.S. meatpacking executives, got a notable gift last week. The gift: the 1½ by 3 ft. original sketch of Rosa Bonheur's nobly galumphing Horse Fair. The donor: doggy Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, niece of John D. Rockefeller Sr.

The Saddle & Sirloin is a luncheon club whose members still enjoy the best that the war has left them of their club's world-famed steaks. The club also owns the world's greatest collection of meat tycoons' portraits. On its somber, paneled walls hang some 240 sumptuously framed, vigorously extroverted, mostly three-quarter-length portraits of the biggest breeders,...

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