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<DIV>Frick used his ill-gotten gains from oil and the railways to found a
beautiful house and art gallery on the East Side of Central Park, which I
visited this spring. It is an amazing building, with art from most of the
pantheon of painters up to the Impressionists. I don’t really see any connection
to Wolfe’s story, but is the gaining of wealth by dubious means in any way
excused by setting up a collection of paintings for posterity. (It does seem
likely that they were only meant for his own personal enjoyment, but we are
lucky to be able to enjoy these pictures now, so who knows?)</DIV>
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