The Days and Nights of a Collector
Richard Brown Baker, whose journal excerpt “My Dinner with Jasper Johns” appeared in issue 143 of The Paris Review, is one of the foremost and most prescient collectors of twentieth-century paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures in America. In 1995, he bequeathed a large portion of his collection to the Yale Museum of Art. Now eighty-six, he has been keeping a journal since his boyhood in Rhode Island.