Two portraits of George Washington (Gilbert Stuart) and a landscape entitled “Kindred Spirits” (Asher B. Durand) are among nineteen works that will soon go on the auction block for the New York Public Library. Paul LeClerc, the library’s president, said the money, expected to be in the range of $50-75 million, would go toward buying books, manuscripts and other works on paper.
Story on the front page of today’s NYT.
Wowsers!
For once, Central Ohio is at the forefront of a new cultural trend
(Ignoring fast food, that is.)