Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, ...
A professor of art and archeology at Dartmouth ... Son of an Irish dancing master, Louis Sullivan, at 16, was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At 17 he was a draftsman ...
SOME people believe knowledge of an artist’s life is irrelevant; what matters is the work. Sometimes, a biography can rightly or wrongly diminish enjoyment of the work. It is indeed hard to ...