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Most immediate and positive in his opinions on authenticity--though perhaps less strict in his standards--than any art history professor is Frank McCarthy, chief art examiner of the New York Appraiser's Office. He is a short, stocky Irishman whose ears, standing at right angles to his head, give the jovial, blue-eyed face a contagiously comical look, which is reinforced by his continual deap-pan kidding and the way he laughs first at his own jokes, perhaps because as Fred A len once said about [[strikethrough]] himself [[/strikethrough]] a comic, he is "closer to them than you are." 

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"In the service" for 46 years, and art examiner for the last  , McCarthy has been educated in the art field in unique ways. Primarily, experience has been his teacher. He scrutinizes about    paintings annually. [[/strikethrough]] His directed observation ranges from a $250,000 Rembrandt and an $80,000 Renoir to/ [[strikethrough]] a framed pseudo-[[]][[/strikethrough]] of a cat bought [[strikethrough]]hcxexchicedxcjam[[/strikethrough]] at the Hotel Drouet in Paris (as a wk of art on whose [[/strikethrough]]honestly declaed value of $6.00,[[/strikethrough]] this  $6.00 framed ptg. was duty free, but the importer [[strikethrough]] was happily prepared [[/strikethrough]] had to pay [[strikethrough]] the duty of[[/strikethrough]] sixty cents [[strikethrough]] duty of necessary  demanded by the [[/strikethrough]]dealer of 10% for its modern frame. ][strikethrough]] He is a familiar visitor [[/strikethrough]] Mcarthy examines object in the  appe wasbere & in all the NY art outlets: is a a familiar visitor  in the plush [[strikethrough]] xxixt [[/strikethrough]] inner sanctums of Duveen and Wildenstein, in the avant-garde atmosphere of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, ][strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in the dark recesses of the Manhattan Storage Company and the jam-packed, gee-gaw filled, excelsior-strewn rooms of the lesser importing [[strikethrough]] companies [[/strikethrough]] firms in the East Fifties whose clients are the Third Avenue [[strikethrough]] junk [[/strikethrough]] antique and junk shops.
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