Leonard Andrews, publisher and art lover
BACK IN THE mid-'80s, Andrew Wyeth, famed for his landscapes and paintings of his rustic neighbors in Chadds Ford, shocked the art world by revealing that he had painted hundreds of images of a nude model named Helga.
BACK IN THE mid-'80s, Andrew Wyeth, famed for his landscapes and paintings of his rustic neighbors in Chadds Ford, shocked the art world by revealing that he had painted hundreds of images of a nude model named Helga.
After giving some of the paintings to his wife, Betty, his business manager, they decided they wanted to find a buyer for the remaining 240 works as a unit.
They found the buyer in Leonard E.B. Andrews, banker, investment expert and patron of the arts, who lived in Newtown Square. Andrews made the multi-million-dollar investment in the Helgas, which he lent to museums and galleries around the world.
Leonard Andrews, former publisher of 30 national legal journals and other publications of interest to lawyers, investors and bankers, and founder of the National Arts Program, died Friday. He was 83 and lived in Malvern.
Andrews, an Army Air Corps bomber pilot in World War II and Korea, was also known for having published 500,000 full-coverage daily newspapers in New York City during the 1962-3 newspaper strike.
He spent four years on Wall Street working on mergers and acquisitions. He also was the author of a column of meditative poetry published in the New York Daily News and reprinted in the Reader's Digest and religious publications.
The National Arts Program, established in 1983 by him and some associates, seeks to identify, showcase and reward the artistic talent in America.
Andrews was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas for 2 1/2 years between World War II and Korea. After military service, he entered the banking business and became an authority on bank credit-card programs.
He had a fascination for the arts from childhood.
He had no immediate survivors. Services and burial will be private. *
