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Mellon’s banker-father Andrew was for 11 yearssecretary of the Treasury. He also loved art, though heleaned toward the Italian and Flemish schools, like his friend Henry Clay Frick. Andrew Mellon’s collection of paintings, in fact, form the nucleus of the National Gap lery of Art, the museum he helped fund and establish in1930 with $71 million: $16 million for the gallery building, a $6 million endowment for salaries and art valued at $50 million. —
Andrew’s contributions pale in comparison with his son’s. The younger Mellon founded and gave the Yale Center $18 million in addition to 1,200 British paintings and 20,000 prints and drawings; then there was the $31 million to build the East Wing of the National Gallery (his sister, the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce and the Andrew f W. Mellon Foundation each provided one-third of the ' $94.4 million needed) in addition to 1,000 works .of French, American and English artists; and to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, more than 1,500 paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Picasso, Eakins, Homer, Stubbs, and others in addition to $6 million towards the new West Wing.
Then there are the foundations he oversees that ‘ contribute to such endeavors as higher education, conservation and ecological concerns.
For all his fame in the art, horse and educational worlds, what is Paul Mellon really like? T . w
“He is most delightful, and has a wonderful sensgl of humor. He’s absolutely low-key, never any bragging^ There’s never any feeling of great wealth when youW-l around him at all,” said Warrentonian William “BiUyT! Wilbur, Master of the Warrenton Hounds from 19IJ4-'! 1968 and an old foxhunting friend of the Mellons. _ j
“He has very simple tastes. For example, Mrs*.;' Wilbur and I went up to Belmont Park with him on Sun-! day,” Wilbur says. ‘
“But there’s no question about making drinks or£ anything on the plane or anything. He never wantrj help. In the house or wherever you are, it’s very case*! fully low-key without domestics around. Paul does awful lot of that himself. I don’t mean cooking and 2E that, but I mean as far as cocktail hour and all, quite <7f=*” ten he is the bartender.” —•>>
Mellon’s humor dances from his eyes, and it’s ev5^ dent in his house as well. On the wall of his study i£2C Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip; the two little frierwSC •
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