Sublime

“She had the power of getting the best out of each thing and person.”

Richard Welden

introduced to art by his uncle, Roald Dahl, who used to take him gallery hopping in London’s Cork Street in the 1950s. The first American whom Logsdail ever met was Walt Disney, who had come to their English country house to buy the rights to Dahl’s Gremlins.

the Met’s old master wing

“Ada, our ardors and arbors”—a dactylic trimeter that was to remain Van Veen’s only contribution to Anglo-American poetry—sang through his brain.

Her appointment was followed by several others.