. In 1910, Dale married Maud Murray, a
painter and
art critic, who introduced him to the idea of collecting
modern art. She had her portrait painted by the noted artist
George Bellows in 1919, and is now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dale followed suit and sat for the artist three years later, and is now in the
National Gallery of Art. Dale can be seen holding a
golf club, and both he and the artist were semi-professional athletes in their youth. When the National Gallery of Art opened its doors in 1937, Dale lent twenty-two
American paintings, and within a few months, two galleries of
French Impressionist paintings. Four years later, he donated another group of works to the
museum. Upon his bequest in 1963, Dale gifted the National Gallery major works by artists such as
Paul Cézanne,
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,
Salvador Dalí,
Henri Matisse,
Amedeo Modigliani,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as the
Both Members of This Club by
George Bellows, the
Portrait of Louis Guillaume by
Paul Cézanne and the
Family of Saltimbanques by
Pablo Picasso. The paintings were obtained from the Dale residence at
Plaza Hotel. The entire bequest included over two-hundred paintings, seven
sculptures, twenty-two
prints, over one-thousand sales catalogs, and over one-thousand books. Additionally, three fellowships were established through a $500,000 endowment. == President of the National Gallery of Art ==