From 2009: Calvin Tomkins writes about the nature of charity after an obscure art collector from Vermont makes a fantastically large donation to the Museum of Modern Art.
Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, has a summer house on Lake Memphremagog, in northern Vermont. The area is part of what Vermonters call the Northeast Kingdom, and people who live there are proud of its frigid winters, frugal economy, and low population density. Two years ago, when Lowry heard that a man named Michael H.
Born and raised in Montreal, the only child of a well-to-do family, Dunn had become a stockbroker, and increased the family fortune through shrewd investments. In 1978, two years after the separatist Parti Québécois came to power, Dunn and his mother, uneasy about their status as English-speakers, moved to a property that Dunn’s grandmother had bought as a vacation home, just across the Canadian border in Vermont.
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