Kent McKeever, an internationally recognized scholar, was the director of the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at the Columbia Law School, for more than twenty-five years. He loved to travel for the library attending conferences and seminars, teaching and lecturing to law librarians and students in the Netherlands, Switzerland, China and Kazahkstan. Later this year, his books, the Role of Tontines 1750-1800 and Portrait of the Georgian Stock Market will be published.
No matter where in the world, Kent pursued his myriad, eclectic interests: opera, thoroughbred horse racing, especially steeplechasing, theater, fine arts, especially painting, and good food. Off to a museum in the morning, a horse meet in the afternoon, then an exquisite dinner and an opera in the evening. Wherever he went, he added to his collections of silver, commemorative coins, paintings, ephemera and books, books and more books.
His interest in war paintings led to his discovery and collection of ‘dazzle ships’, covered in repetitive, angular designs of varying colors that confused the enemy. This unique camouflage was meant to disguise the ship’s ID, its length, its speed, and especially the direction the ship was moving.
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