January 29, 2009

Art and Commerce

A newspaper heiress's savvy business decision allows her to share her wealth with museums

By Noelle Barton

Emily Rauh Pulitzer has a feeling her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., would have approved of her decision to give 31 works of art from the couple's private collection to the Harvard Art Museum last fall. After all, he had been an avid art collector and had made scores of such donations to his alma mater throughout the years.

However, Mr. Pulitzer, who

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