In the end, his works were relegated to storage in the museum for many years.
And he enthused over Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, George Tooker, Jared French, Henry Koerner and many others whom he truly believed would be remembered after Matisse, Beckmann and Dalí were relegated to storage.
Far better, he argued, to lend the 2,000-odd 2,000-oddmuseums around the works toan to risk their being largely relegated to storage in Los Angeles.
Because of the size of the mural, it had many homes in the ensuing decades and was then relegated to storage.
Considerably damaged, the painting was relegated to storage and never carefully studied until 2005, when John Marciari reattributed the work to Diego Velázquez (1599 1660), the most significant painter of the Spanish Golden Age.
Boxes of the unsold books, along with the rest of his collection 5,000 or so volumes by other authors, were relegated to storage two years ago, when Mr. Davis sold the Boerum Hill town house that had been his home since 1965 and moved into a postwar condominium around the corner.
"We had all these people call us and visit us to tell us how great they felt that the religious objects they had in their churches are now in our church and not relegated to storage," said Sacred Heart's pastor, the Rev. Daniel J. Riley.
Donors and descendants of donors, who had been solicited by museums to make gifts or bequests of specific works of art which were deaccessioned or relegated to storage for future deaccessioning, will never again subject themselves to the changing tastes and politics of successive curators or directors.
A display of 200 works from the decorative arts collection, for which there is otherwise no gallery space, has been jammed into the lobby and onto the second-floor balcony of the museum to demonstrate to the public the problem of overcrowding and the fineness of objects that must now be relegated to storage.
Consequently, most of the dolls were relegated to storage bins.
I found items I desired but then fell out of love with; they were relegated to storage, then met their fate at a garage sale.
