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Art: Witness to a long and lustrous leadership

Anne d'Harnoncourt settled into her new job as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on July 1, 1982, two months before I arrived in town to address the formidable challenge of writing about art for this newspaper. I had never set foot in the Art Museum. Nor had I ever heard of the woman who would become the cultural conscience of the city and its distinguished ambassador to the rest of the world.

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