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In fond and grateful memory of George M. Baer ( 1936–2009 )

Why do you buy drawings?” . . . (one) motive may be stronger and more basic than all others: that is the longing to live with what we can only call the miracle of art—the strange unity between something eternal and a fragile piece of paper. To harbor such guests, who enno ble our home with their silent and eloquent presence, who bring us so much happiness: what man would not count this a privilege and a deep satisfaction?

— Curtis O. Baer, October 1957