She met Mary Cabot Wheelwright, the well-known collector of Indian artifacts, when she photographed Ms. Wheelwright's extensive collection.
That year the museum sent an emissary, Edmund Carpenter, a wealthy donor and collector of aboriginal artifacts, to Greenland to find someone to request the bones' return.
They traced most to a single art dealer, Ernie Wolfe III, a prominent collector of African artifacts and the owner of the Ernie Wolfe Gallery in Los Angeles.
Mr. Henry was himself a collector of colonial artifacts and considered quite an authority on American antiques and colonial life, according to the exhibition catalog.
Picasso was known as an inveterate collector of the artifacts and detritus of day-to-day life, and held particularly tightly to his artworks; his heirs say they doubt he could ever bear to part with such a sizable collection.
(212-832-1155) www.organsociety.org 'ARTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD.' -- Doris Duke was American Heiress No. 1 for most of her life, hounded by paparazzi, playboys, and a variety of hangers-on, but she found some considerable peace as an astute and energetic collector of Islamic artifacts.
Coyne, once the guitarist and presiding genius behind a band called Jude's Hammer, is a collector of macabre artifacts, including a trepanned skull, a snuff film and Aleister Crowley's childhood chessboard (not all that macabre this last one, I think).
"Anamorphosis" (1991), in which they playfully reveal hidden symbols in old paintings, was a joint venture of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; "The Phantom Museum" (2003), a video installation at the British Museum, explored the storerooms of Henry Wellcome, a noted early collector of medical artifacts.
The episode is set in Utah in the year 2012, in the underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten, a rich collector of alien artifacts.
