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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: art donations

art donations stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - Herb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the... More »

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 Hockney Donates
 40-Footer to Tate 

Enormous work would have fetched millions on open market

Apr 8, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Hockney has donated his largest-ever painting to London's Tate museum rather than sell it for a presumed price of several million dollars, reports the Times of London. Hockney, one of the world's foremost figurative painters, said donating the 40-foot-long Bigger Trees Near Warter was a "duty," and... More »

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philanthropy • London • art • Tate Gallery • David Hockney • Bigger Trees Near Warter • art donations

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