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LCR, probably about Chicago is not a very good example, but the Americans themselves are somehow not spoken much about it, but, as in the rest, about the American West, I think I right, just visited there, what is called "Feel the difference"!
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Tanya, you must understand one thing: first, already with 10-20-ies. Twentieth century Americans have become major buyers of European art, and the old and new, and secondly, each collector is trying to ensure that its collection of decent future (there are also various tax tricks that contribute to this, but it's not the point).
People with virtually unlimited funds (Salomon Guggenheim, Frick) built a museum, others passed on his collection to major museums - Washington National Gallery, MoMA, the Met, and so on.
But such museums are only interested in collections made up entirely of masterpieces. Assembly is a bit easier, they do not accept, or may take, but guarantee weighing no more than 10-15%, the rest will be stored in the vaults.
Not all collectors are taking such conditions (I told the story of Dodge's negotiations with the Guggenheim, which ended in nothing), they begin to look for a place easier. A good example, in my opinion, can serve as a collection of the University Ratger - Dodge collection is also located there, but now it is not about her, but about meeting Zimmerly. University this rasprolozhen literally in an open field near the city of New Brunswick in New Jersey, small-industrial and one of the most non-prestigious, about a half hour drive from New York.
So, when the French were preparing an exhibition Honore Daumier, Ratger gave her no more than 20 items.
That is, I want to say that the wealth of American museum collections is difficult to imagine.
It seems to me, do not be a revolution in Russia would be the same, because the Russian collectors have also been very active, alas, was not ...