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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedLiving in the past. (Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Inc.'s 3,500-piece art collection) (Corporate Gallery: The Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Collection of Americana)
Financial Executive, July, 1992 by Couch, Robin L.
An extensive collection of nineteenth century American art is housed and being used in the corporate headquarters of the investment banking firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc (DLJ). This 3,500-piece collection of Americana focuses mainly on early nineteenth-century art originating from or depicting New York city. Pieces in the DLJ collection include about 75 oil paintings, 200 decorative, 1,200 prints and 2,000 various printed materials. The uniqueness of the DLJ collection stems from the firm's practice of using the items like standard office furniture, such as in the case of an 1810 mahogany-framed sofa that is used to seat guests and visitors in the lobby. The firm has also loaned out some of its portraits. Two such instances were when President Bush borrowed the life-size...
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