The Washington Post, March 4th, 1994
RUTH BENEDICT used to be Andrew Robison's particular friend, but now she belongs to all of us. Benedict, a Washington physician and art patron, lunched nearly every Wednesday for 18 years with Robison, senior curator of the National Gallery of Art, to discuss - and argue about - life and art, especially art. Topic A was Robison's stewardship of the gallery's great collection of prints and drawings. Topic B was the exquisite collection of prints and drawings that Benedict spent much of her life assembling. Robison recalls those lunches as fifteen hundred of the best hours of his life. Over the ...
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