oriental rugs, African adornment, Japanese prints, Egyptian sculpture, and antique ivory carvings. The Cone Collection is used by art students and scholars from around the world as a research source. The estimated value of the Cone Collection in 2002 was close to $1 billion. The Cone Collection includes Matisse's Blue Nude (1907) and Reclining Nude (1935), Cézanne's Mont Sainte Victoire as seen from Bibémus Quarry (1897), Gauguin's Woman of Mango (1892), and Picasso's Mother with Child (1922). The Cone sisters collected all through Matisse's painting career, accumulating 42 of his oil paintings, 16 sculptures, 35 drawings, 150 prints, and a half dozen books of illustration – as well as over 200 hand drawings, art prints, and illustrated copper plates from Matisse's first published book of illustration, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. Other Matisse works they acquired were the 1917 Woman in a Turban (Lorette), Seated Odalisque, Knee Bent, Ornamental Background (1928), and Interior, Flowers with Parakeets (1924). The 500 works by Matisse in the Cone sisters' collection form the largest and most representative group of his art work in the world. The Cone sisters also acquired many of Picasso's works, and among these were 114 prints and drawings from his early years in Barcelona and from his Rose period (1905–1906) in Paris. A portion of the Cone art collection, including many Matisse lithographs and bronzes, resides at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, where the Cone Mills were located. Moses Cone had his vacation home Flat Top Manor in nearby Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and the Cone sisters often visited their brother there. Other visitors included Julius Cone – another of the Cone siblings – and his wife Laura, who was a past graduate of the University of North Carolina. Laura was aware that the Weatherspoon Art Gallery had been formed on the campus in 1942, and she asked Etta if she would be interested in making a gift of art. In her will, Etta left an endowment to the Weatherspoon Art Gallery consisting of sixty-seven Matisse prints, six Matisse bronzes, several modern prints, and art by Picasso, Félix Vallotton, Raoul Dufy, and John D. Graham. Death Claribel died September 20, 1929. Etta died on August 31, 1949. The Cone sisters were buried at Baltimore's Druid Ridge Cemetery in an area called Hickory Knoll. The only word on their ten-by-ten family mausoleum is "Cone". Architect James O.