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With the passing of Bernice Berend Rose (1935–2023), the art world has suffered a true loss: an art world of curators, dealers, gallerists, scholars, connoisseurs, collectors, artists, art historians, students, and the art-loving public in general—all of those who made up the fabric of Bernice’s life and whom she best loved spending her life with. 

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© 2021  Simone Withers Swan The memorable moments began in 1967. I was living in Manhattan when the New York State Council on the Arts, one of my clients, assigned me to write up the booklet for its first annual awards of which Louis Kahn was a recipient. I was to meet and interview the ten awardees. Eventually a ceremony would be held honoring them, my descriptive brochure handed out, and mailed to legislators in Albany who funded the council. By 1968, New York State was dedicated to support...