[Meanwhile, the Modern is planning to mount an exhibition of the gift in the summer of 2006.] We wanted to do it A.S.A.P., ... but it takes time to unload the boat and to absorb big gifts into our collection. -John Elderfield

 

[Meanwhile, the Modern is planning to mount an exhibition of the gift in the summer of 2006.] We wanted to do it A.S.A.P., ... but it takes time to unload the boat and to absorb big gifts into our collection.


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This quote is just one of 9 total John Elderfield quotes in our collection. John Elderfield is known for saying '[Meanwhile, the Modern is planning to mount an exhibition of the gift in the summer of 2006.] We wanted to do it A.S.A.P., ... but it takes time to unload the boat and to absorb big gifts into our collection.' as well as some of the following quotes.

For our 1992 retrospective of Matisse, I'd traveled from Japan to Australia to Mexico to the Soviet Union and could not find this painting. So this summer, when the call came, I said, 'How could it be?

John Elderfield

I had completely forgotten about the painting.

John Elderfield

It's great. For a curator, the two great thrills are, first, finding and acquiring real monuments of art. The other part is being able to hang them.

John Elderfield

When they were both older artists, they had reached a kind of eminence and recognized that they were truly pre-eminent in their generations, and they had experiences, they had a notion of painting which nobody else shared.

John Elderfield

[Meanwhile, the Modern is planning to mount an exhibition of the gift in the summer of 2006.] We wanted to do it A.S.A.P., ... but it takes time to unload the boat and to absorb big gifts into our collection.

John Elderfield