No place he’d rather be: New Art Museum chief always loved Philadelphia | Philadelpha Inquirer

Tall, fair-haired, and patrician, strongly emitting that ineffable thing called presence, Timothy Rub [Middlebury Class of 1974] is wandering through the galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art late one recent night like a kid let loose in a candy shop.

“Isn’t that fantastic?” he says, sidling up to Monet’s Water Lilies, Japanese Footbridge. “This is a superb painting.” He points out the unusual thickness of paint and the diffuse ochres, tans, and greens that make the piece seem almost more abstract than impressionist.

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