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The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds: " New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds
By CAROL VOGEL

Published: April 11, 2005


he New York Public Library has decided to sell 19 works of art from its collection - including 'Kindred Spirits,' a widely admired landscape by the Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand, and two seminal portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart - so that it can better compete in acquisitions of important books and collections. "