380:, the suspect works were removed. It has been alleged that Chrysler had a reputation for acquiring art works but not paying for them. In 1971, the museum relocated to Norfolk after municipal authorities refused Chrysler's request for tax abatements, although it has been suggested he was asked to leave Provincetown by authorities due to persistent homosexual soliciting.
159:. Using $ 350 that his father had given him as a birthday present, Chrysler purchased a small watercolor landscape that featured an inch-high nude, and he brought the painting to his room at school. His dorm master, believing that it was improper for a young gentleman to display a picture of a nude woman, confiscated the picture and destroyed it. The painting was by
368:. The Art Dealers Association of America asserted that 90 of the 187 exhibited paintings were fakes. That same year, at Picasso's 80th birthday exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, the artist himself was shown photographs of six of his works owned by Chrysler, and he wrote
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Chrysler's father died in 1940, he left Walter Chrysler Jr. one-quarter of an $ 8.8 million estate, together with real property, stocks, bonds, and trust funds. In 1956, Chrysler retired fully from business life to devote himself to the arts.
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system. After establishing worldwide distribution, he transferred the patent to the parent company but remained a director. In the following year he became president of the
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