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From: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Date: 20070816
Author:Kurt Shaw

As the old saying goes, "Ya gotta start somewhere."

In 1904, John W. Beatty, who served as Carnegie Museum of Art's first director from 1896-1922, began to assemble the first of what was to become the museum's Works on Paper collection.

His first purchase was "Figures on the Coast" (1883) by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). A charcoal drawing about half the size of a piece of typing paper, it was the perfect complement to "The Wreck," Homer's famous painting from 1896 that won the Chronological Medal and a purchase prize of $5,000 in the first ever Carnegie International (1866), thus becoming the ...

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