The Walters Gallery Revisited
Francis Henry Taylor
WHEN one is confronted by such a wealth of art as that amassed the late Henry Walters apt to attribute motives collector were essentially foreign his purpose. The casual visitor impressed what appears on surface magpie complex, voracious appetite for acquisition an end in itself. But making indictment purist overlooks capacity enjoyment with which certain persons are endowed greater or lesser degree. In America absence great hereditary collections, formed haphazard and rather desultory interest dynasties wealth, have placed curator defensive regard quality. There perhaps too deep intolerance byways fanatical pursuit high road. It must be finest greatest, let alone completest object its kind receive even scantest attention among cognoscenti present day. This, may argue, blessing when expenditure public...
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