Museum quality
Now that I know how easy it is for James Cuno to do business with thieves who can deliver aesthetically appealing objectsto him and the institution he runs simply becausethere is the money, desire and the lack of ethicsto do so, I wish your article (“Plunder Road,” Nov. 9) had been published just a little earlier.I just renewedmy membership subscription to the Art Institute of Chicago.I wish I had known thenwhat I know now about the acquisition policy of the institute’s president. I could have saved my money and eliminated my modestcontributionto the financing of the global looting of irreplaceable antiquities from other countries too poor and too weak to prevent connoisseurs like Cuno from feeding theirexotic habit.
Susan Volotta / Itasca
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Storied store
In response to Rick Kogan’s column on harpist Doriss Briggs and Lyon & Healy (“Sidewalks,” Oct. 26), here’s a photo from my Meter family. The man in the lower left is Frank Meter, my grandfather. He’d been a salesman for Lyon & Healy, so taken by his employers he named his son/my dad “Vincent” after Vincent Healy! On the reverse of the photo, the date: “August, 1911.” I’m told that Ed Brennan worked there. He was my grandfather’s friend and later he created the grid system for theCity of Chicago.
Virginia Meter Zdenahlik / Bailey’s Harbor, Wis.
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