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The new Chase-manhattan bank in Wall Street will be graced by work by avant-garde painters and sculptors. Architects are employing more and more modern artists in [[crossed out]] the new research centers and office buildings which they are creating. Thus, corporations are important collectors and patrons of art today.
these four aspects of art collecting in America---
one) the celerity, the rapidity with which the great collections in America have been formed,
two) the fact that private collecting is almost always synonymous with public benefaction,
thhe) the variety and many leveled aspects of collecting 
and four) the new wide audience
--- these are four of the facets of the fascinating story of American art collecting.

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[[crossed out]] Aline B. Saarinen
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Midwest 6-1434 [[/crossed out]]