It's "the greatest collection of American modernism ever to come to market," says Christie's. Edward Hopper, Chop Suey (1929). The work, from the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth, is expected to fetch ...

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Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1951, p. 7 Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1953, p. 44 The Alice Pike Barney Memorial Collection is presented by ...