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Insights on Art Collecting at the Ackland by Marilyn Strother

December 12, 2011
Trudy Thomson
Drawing and Pastels, Illustration, Painting

Thought I would share with you what I learned from a recent talk on art collecting that was presented by Sheldon Peck at the Ackland Art Museum. Peck opened with a slide of Toulouse-Lautrec's oil on board of Dr. Jules Emile Paen, a dentist. Dr. Peck is an orthodontist who has amassed a remarkable collection of Flemish and Dutch drawings.…

October 17, 2011
Trudy Thomson
Sculpture

I was in New York near the end of August this summer visiting my friend Jan who, with her husband, has an apartment in a building designed by I. M. Pei. The city morgue is within shouting distance from them. After 9/11, for almost a year, the broad sidewalk along the front of the apartment building was wall to wall…