"If using part of the museum site proved to be feasible in terms of both improving museum facilities and creating a more vibrant market which adds to the heritage value of the city, then I think this could be an excellent solution.
There, he improved his museum's stature and earned a reputation for giving future art stars their first major museum exhibitions.
His atrium at the Morgan Library and Museum, while beautiful as a space unto itself, is of the event variety; it has diminished, not improved, that museum's gallery spaces and their layout.
A survey of visitors conducted by the Heckscher late last summer revealed that about a third came specifically to see the Grosz painting; that more than half said that it had the strongest impact; and that 80percentt said the picture improved their museum experience.
Over the years, there were stabs at improving the museum.
Ms. Reid said she would like to improve the museum's 20th-century collection.
The gift, which includes all the photographs that were in the Marlborough exhibition, improves the museum's holdings substantially.
Guidelines require that the proceeds of such sales be used only to improve a museum's collection, not for operating expenses like salaries or fuel bills.
But improving the museum was evidently not a high priority, and finally, after much legal contention, the legacy of land and money was split.
The guards lauded the exhibition as a show of good will by museum management, and said that opening the show to the public would not only increase the number of visitors, but would also improve the museum's image.
