I wrote a Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column in 2015 about Edward G. Robinson's art collection. It's no longer widely remembered, but Robinson, the greatest of all big-screen gangsters, was Hollywood's first major collector of fine art. (Lest we forget, he also played a murderous, sexually frustrated amateur painter in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street.) He […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM on February 18, 2019