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3 unusual facts about Perry T. Rathbone


Perry T. Rathbone

He was a champion of modern art, and along with Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., stimulated many other collectors of modern art in St. Louis.

Rathbone also was instrumental in helping the German artist Max Beckmann move to America after the war by securing him a teaching position at Washington University.

As temporary head of the paintings department while also serving as the museum's director, he added notable works to the collection such as Rosso Fiorentino'sDead Christ with Angels and the anonymous fifteenth-century Flemish Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus.


Perry Ryan

Perry T. Ryan, author and Assistant Attorney-General of Kentucky


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