…made art and artists part of their everyday life,” said Anderson Collection Director Jason Linetzky. Integral to the exhibition are photo montages that show the couple entertaining artists in their home, as well as replicas of notes, letters and holiday cards they received over the years. Unlike contemporary art collectors who can now buy art via online auctions, the Andersons had to go to the art in order to build their collection. They made yea…

…assmates together at Columbia.” He adds, “Bill [Rubin] was interested in selling off his collection. There was a question of ethics here, in selling works that could have gone to the museum, but he always said that he had offered them to the museum first.” Anderson gestures toward the splashy black and white “Figure 8,” 1952, by Franz Kline and “Pink and White Over Red,” 1957, by Mark Rothko. In the livin…

…5740472.php 2/3 Pollock’s abstract “drip painting” “Lucifer” (1947), a capstone of the Anderson Collection and the last great work of its kind in private hands, might fetch more than $100 million were it to go on the block in today’s overheated auction market. Opening up their home Over the years, Hunk and Moo have welcomed countless visitors into their unpretentious home, built in the late 1960s, to view and s…

…ilding, designed by Richard Olcott, contains works by 86 artists, the fruit of nearly 50 years of collecting and the product of self-education on the part of Harry and Mary Anderson. A 1964 visit to Paris’s museums inspired the couple to begin collecting. “We started off very naively,” 92-year-old Harry Anderson told A.i.A., “thinking that art was somebody we would play golf with.” Bowled over by the aesthetic experi…