1.   Among other things, he never wrote about major collectors like Sergei Shchukin, Ivan Morosov and the Havemayers, as he had planned.

2.   Inside are photographic blowups of what the gallery looked like and synoptic histories of major collectors, dealers and museum directors.

3.   Many of the popes were major collectors, and several Renaissance princes and crowned heads of Europe left priceless libraries to the papacy.

4.   Museums did well, on the other hand, as did many major private collectors.

5.   Often a dealer is tagged as the brains behind a major collector.

6.   Over the years, as word has spread that this was the place where all the major European collectors buy great art, Americans have followed.

7.   Phillips was the first major collector to endorse Lawrence.

8.   The National Gallery, competing with other museums for the donations of major collectors, builds in some wiggle room for donors.