Brooke Astor's Dog Painting Collection

"I am obviously a dog lover"

I got my hands on some old copies of Architectural Digest and was reading the May of 1986 issue and came upon the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. profile that starts off with the line “The very name evokes a grande dame…” With a lede like that, you can imagine where it goes from there. It’s got lines like “She is wealthy and could so easily waste her days in …