Making a meal of it Readers may recall our revelation that high street retail tycoon Sir Philip Green (pictured) donated £20,000 to the NSPCC at a recent charity auction in exchange for lunch with Paul Dacre.
The most important holdings are the 20th-century American pictures donated by the author James A. Michener and his wife, Mari (ranging from the Ashcan School through a jaunty yellow oil by Arthur G. Dove called "Good Breeze" to Sam Gilliam and Larry Rivers), and the recently acquired Suida-Manning collection, parts of which had been on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"This is a set of images that the Getty has been thinking about and wanting to get for several years," said Virginia Heckert, an associate photography curator at the Getty, who helped negotiate a deal with Mr. Penn, who sold some of the pictures and donated others.
The other day I heard some news that made my heart do a happy dance: the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) recently donated picture books about pets to children in over 600 domestic violence shelters across the U.S. The whole idea is to help kids who have witnessed or experienced abuse heal, and encourage humane treatment of animals.
He donated pictures to raise money for the Republicans in the Spanish civil war, but also laid himself open to Bawden's teasing that, though he was supposedly a "socialist", he designed the Wedgwood coronation mug (an excuse for indulging his love of drawing fireworks).
Now Mr. Norton has donated the picture to the Tate, meaning that it will be in the major museum of modern art in Mr. Saatchi's home city.
The picture, starring Frederick C. Warde, was donated several years ago to the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and has not been screened on the East Coast.
"Descendants should certainly be consulted," writes Martin Bailey, chief reporter for the Art Newspaper, in the London Evening Standard, "but ultimately the director must run the gallery for the public benefit... Few gallery-goers are interested in who donated a picture and, in any case, this detail is always, quite rightly, recorded on the label".
A photograph of her coffin outside the Abbey was taken by Australian soldier Arthur Menzies, whose family has donated the picture to the Cavell Memorabilia Collection.
Right now, the wall includes only the names and pictures of people who donated $100,000, but in the coming months, the board of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee will decide who else deserves recognition.
