A SPORTING VISION AN EXHIBITION AT THE NSLM
The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts By Richard Hooper
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aul Mellon’s influence in Middleburg, as elsewhere, is significant and lasting. When Mellon moved into Brick House on his estate outside of Upperville in 1941, it became a base for his sporting, collecting and philanthropic interests—all of which overlapped. In the coming years, he would underwrite the construction of Trinity Church in Upperville, build the Middleburg Training Center, and purchase more than a thousand acres of land near Paris, Virginia, which he would give to the state as Sky Meadows Park. Along with a million-dollar donation Exhibition | Page 23
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