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Friday, September 12, 2003

"Maybe the best compliment one can give an art exhibition, especially one devoted to historical material, is that it makes you want to look long and close at everything on view and that the installation enhances this process. "The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art handily meets those goals. It puts on view a glorious promised gift from the collector Ralph T. Coe: more than 200 works, many hovering near masterpiece level, some dating from prehistoric times.

The show reflects the Met's belated and increasing recognition of one of the world's major long-term artistic traditions, and the gift adds substantially to its relatively meager holdings in this area. It will increase the museum's North American Indian objects by one third, from around 600 pieces to 800."

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A Collector's-Eye Look at North American Indian Art (The New York Times 9/12)
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