A Greenwich Village art collection just landed in Chevy Chase — and it won't stay long.

The Story Behind the Art:

Long before he became known in art circles, Harry Zarin (1913–2008) was a young painter working the streets and studios of Greenwich Village during its most electric years — the late 1930s and '40s, when New York's art world was rewriting the rules of American painting. Zarin ran in the same circles as many of the era's most influential artists,...