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He was president of the board from 1963 until 1985, and provided, with the Mellon Foundation and the estate of his sister Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the ninety-five million dollars to build the I. M. Pei–designed East Wing. Upon his retirement in 1985, he became an honorary trustee, a position he would hold until his death in 1999.
Jun 19, 2016 · Philanthropist and collector Paul Mellon gave the gift of art to the American people. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is honoring that gift as part of its 75th anniversary celebration.
May 22, 2014 · May 22, 2014. The final group of paintings, drawings and sculptures bequeathed to museums by Paul Mellon before his death in 1999 have at last begun to arrive. Hidden away for decades, many are ...
May 30, 2014 · This film celebrates the spirit and philosophy of Paul Mellon. The narration is comprised of his own words drawn from interviews, speeches and a variety of w...
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Feb 17, 2001 · When Paul Mellon died in February 1999, he left the Center nearly three hundred paintings, sixty-four mostly small-scale sculptures, large numbers of drawings and prints, and a magnificent group of rare books. These were the works he chose to keep for his own pleasure until the end of his life, and they represent the more personal side of his great British collection. To the vast array of his ...
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Apr 20, 2007 · Photograph from the Paul Mellon Collection Another little-known dazzler, “John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton” (about 1833), is a large canvas by one Robert Burnard.
