In the early fall of 1970, Bunny Mellon paid a visit to Mark Rothko’s studio. The painter had died earlier that year and its floor was littered with unstretched canvases. She bought one for $150,000, ...
Landscape historian Griswold (The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island) considers the life of heiress Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon and her lasting influence on American ...