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Syril Levin Kline
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Inspiring Legacy: David and Carmen Kreeger's Journey to Philanthropy
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Taking the Plunge!
The story of David and Carmen’s headlong plunge into art collecting begins modestly. As young newlyweds, they started collecting prints by impressionists and old masters to decorate their Colonial Village apartment in Arlington, Virginia. When David’s legal career blossomed and their children were born, they moved into their first single family home. Then, when David took the helm of the Government Employees Insurance Corporation (GEICO), he and Carmen began purchasing original masterpieces that they both enjoyed. They shared the same enthusiasm, taste, and energy for collecting great works of art. Today, many of these paintings and sculptures are on display at the Kreeger Museum on Foxhall Road in Washington, DC. Plan your personal visit to the Museum by viewing its website at www.kreegermuseum.org
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Inspiring Legacy: David and Carmen Kreeger's Journey to Philanthropy
In December 1961, Vogue magazine reported on the Kreeger’s newest acquisition of Vincent van Gogh’s Vase with Flowers, including a full-page color image in the center of the magazine:
The blue ravishment with white and crimson flowers, rich and intense but without violence of any kind, belongs to the Paris days of the great, but then unknown, Dutch painter van Gogh. Doubly exposed to both the impressionists and to Japanese art, van Gogh put a little of both in this subtle painting, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger.
David credited his appreciation of abstract art to his professor at Rutgers, Dr. Thomas Munro. When speaking before the public, he shared his personal insights from his perspective as a musician, informing and entertaining his listeners with new insights into understanding modern art:
The trend in modern painting is to depart from figuration because one can get much pleasure simply from line and color. Anyone can read into an abstraction what he wants. It is an emotional experience, and it doesn’t need to “mean” anything.
What does a concerto or symphony “mean” in music? You simply enjoy the rhythm and the harmony of the work.
In abstract art, the line is like rhythm; the color is like harmony.
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