The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 kmÂ²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Many of the best-known musicians of the time appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock.
Andrew William Mellon (1855â1937), one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries in history and also the namesake of Washington, D.C.'s Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
âGreen Wheat Fields, Auvers,â by van Gogh, from 1890, donated to the National Gallery of Art. When he died in 1999, the philanthropist Paul Mellon left the National Gallery of Art in Washington the largest gift in its history: $75 million plus nearly 200 paintings, many of them masterpieces by artists like van Gogh, Manet, CÃ©zanne, Monet and Renoir.