Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Archives Directory for the History of Collecting

Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972
Aline Saarinen was an art and architectural critic; her husband...
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1914-1972 New York NY Scholar/Critic/Expert Collector
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961
Architect, and collector, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Eero was born in...

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1910-1961 Bloomfield Hills MI Collector Other
Sabarsky, Serge
Art dealer and expert on expressionism...
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1939-1996 New York NY Dealer/Gallery Scholar/Critic/Expert
Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965
Art Historian, collector and Harvard associate director of the Fogg...
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1878-1965 Cambridge MA Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert
Sackler, Arthur M.
Arthur M. Sackler was an art collector, patron, psychiatrist, biological...
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1903-1987 New York NY Collector
Saidenberg Gallery
Opened in New York in 1950, closed in June 1999...
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1950-1999 New York NY Collector Dealer/Gallery
Saidenberg, Daniel
Art collector, Musician, conductor and gallery owner.

Daniel studied at...

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1906-1997 New York NY Collector Dealer/Gallery Musician
Saidenberg, Eleanore B.
Eleanore Block Saidenberg was an art collector, owner of Saidenberg...
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1911-1999 New York NY Collector Dealer/Gallery
Sala, Laura Bayer
Laura Bayer Sala, nee Laura Bache Kayser, was an art...
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1874–1961 New York NY Collector
Salomon, William, 1852-
Salomon was an art collector, banker, and philanthropist who married...
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1852-1919 New York NY Collector
Salpeter, Harry
Writer, art critic, gallery owner; New York, N.Y.; b. 1895...
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1895-1967 New York NY Scholar/Critic/Expert Dealer/Gallery
Salz, Sam
Collected and dealt in French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings...
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1894-1981 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Samuels, Mitchell, 1880-1959
President and founder of French & Company...
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1880?–1959 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Sandler, Marc, 1907-1968
Art collector; Sweden and Pennsylvania. Swedish-born Sandler came to...
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1907-1968 Pittsburgh PA Collector
Santa Monica Art Gallery
Established as a commercial art gallery by librarians at the...
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1947-1965 Santa Monica CA Dealer/Gallery
Sartain, John, 1808-1897
John Sartain was a reproductive engraver and collector.

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1808-1897 Philadelphia PA Artist Collector
Schaefer, Bertha, 1895-1971
Interior designer and gallery director. Graduated from the Mississippi State...
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1895-1971 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Schaeffer Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Schaeffer Galleries; established by Hanns and Kate Schaeffer in Berlin...
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1925-1990s New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Schaeffer, Kate Born, 1898?-2000
Art dealer, collector, and owner, Schaeffer Galleries, NYC. She was...
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(1898)–2000 New York NY Collector Dealer/Gallery
Schardt, Alois Jakob, 1889-1955
German art historian and museum director. Then director of the...
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1889-1955 Berlin Scholar/Critic/Expert
Schaus, Hermann, 1850-1911
Herman Schaus was a New York art dealer.

Firm of...

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1850-1911 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Schemm, Peter A., 1853-1909
Philadelphia brewer and art collector, Peter A. Schemm collected work...
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1853-1909 Philadelphia PA Collector
Scheyer, Ernst, 1901-
Art historian; Detroit, Mich. Wrote extensively on his friend and...
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1901-1985 Detroit MI Scholar/Critic/Expert
Scheyer, Galka E.
Galka Emmy Scheyer was born in Germany in 1889, in...
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1889-1945 Hollywood CA Scholar/Critic/Expert Collector Dealer/Gallery
Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920
Jacob H Schiff was an art collector, financier, and philanthropist...
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1847-1920 New York NY Collector
Schiff, Mortimer L.
Mortimer Loeb Schiff was a collector, philanthropist, financier, partner in...
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1877-1931 New York NY Collector
Schinasi, Leon
Leon Schinasi was a Gothic and Renaissance art collector, businessman...
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1880-1930 New York NY Collector
Schneider-Gabriel Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Art gallery; New York, N.Y. Owned by Albert Schneider...
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1923-1953 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Schnitzer, Arlene, 1929-
Schnitzer, Arlene; b. 1929; art dealer, patron, founder and director...
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1929– Portland OR Dealer/Gallery
Schoenberger, John H.
John H. Schoenberger was an art collector and Iron manufacturer...
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1810-1889 Pittsburgh PA Collector
Schoenborn, Florene May
Art collector and Samuel A Marx's widow.

The Marx collection...

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1903-1995 Chicago IL Collector
Scholz, János, 1903
A cellist, art collector and benefactor of the Pierpont Morgan...
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1903-1993 New York NY Collector Patron
Schramm, Dorothy
She and her husband collected African sculpture and post-1940...
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1909-2006 Burlington IA Collector
Schramm, James S
James S Schramm was a businessman [J. S. Schramm Company...
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1904-1980 Burlington IA Collector
Schraubstadter, Carl, 1862-1947
Carl William Schraubstadter collected Japanese prints.

Part of his print...

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1862-1947 New York City NY Collector
Schultheis' Galleries.
A gallery owned and operated by Henry Schultheis (1864-1948) until...
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1886-1948? New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939
Charles Michael Schwab Collector and Patron.

Lent Frans Hals Portrait...

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1862-1939 New York NY Collector
Schwartz, Manfred, 1909-1970
Painter and gallery owner; New York, N.Y. Owned Gallery 144...
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1909-1970 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Schweizer, Herman
Herman Schweizer was a Native American Art collector and deealer...
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1871-1943 Albuquerque NM Dealer/Gallery
Scott & Fowles (Firm)
Commercial art gallery; New York, N.Y. Now defunct. Originally established...
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1905-1943 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Scott, Irving Murray, 1837-1903
Scott was an art collector, businessman and president of the...
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1837-1903 San Francisco CA Collector
Scott, Thomas Alexander, 1823-1881
Colonel Thomas Alexander Scott was a railroad man, president of...
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1823-1881 Philadelphia PA Collector
Scudder, John A.
Captain John A. Scudder was an art collector, businessman, banker...
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Saint Louis MO Collector
Scull, Ethel, 1921-2001
Ethel Redner Scull was a New York art collector who...
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1921-2001 New York NY Collector Patron
Scull, Robert, 1917-1986
New York taxi medallion owner and art collector who backed...
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1917-1986 Warren CT Collector Patron
Seders, Francine, 1932-
Francine Lavinal Seders: collector, dealer, and owner of Francine Seders...
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1932– Seattle WA Dealer/Gallery
Seeger, Stanley J.
Stanley Joseph Seeger was a collector of fine and decorative...
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1930-2011 Whitby Collector
Seligman, Otto D., 1890-1966
Otto D. Seligman, 1890-1966; Seattle art gallery owner; dealer for...
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1890-1996 Seattle WA Dealer/Gallery
Seney, George Ingraham, 1826-1893
George Ingraham Seney was a philanthropist and banker (President of...
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1826-1893 New York NY Collector
Severance, John L. (John Long), 1863-1936
John Long Severance (1863-1936) was an industrialist, philanthropist, art patron...
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1863-1936 Cleveland OH Collector
Shack, Richard
Richard Shack (1926-) is chairman of the Board of Trustees...
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1926- Miami FL Collector
Shack, Ruth, 1931-
Ruth Shack (1931-) is president of the Dade-Community Foundation...
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1931- Miami FL Collector
Shapiro, Jory
Her and her husband, Joseph, collected Surrealist works by - among...
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River Forest IL Collector
Shapiro, Joseph Randall
Joseph Shapiro began collecting in 1942 and was drawn to...
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1904-1996 River Forest IL Collector
Sharp, Evelyn Grey
Collector, businesswoman, investor, philanthropist, and the head of an hotelier...
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1903-1997 New York NY Collector
Shaw, Edwin Coupland, 1863-1941
Shaw, a BF Goodrich executive and collector of post-Civil...
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1863-1941 Akron OH Collector
Shaw, Quincy Adams, 1826-1908
Quincy Adams Shaw named for his father's friend, John Quincy...
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1826-1908 Jamaica Plain MA Collector
Shaw, Samuel T., 1861-1945
Shaw was a businessman, hotel proprietor (Grand Union Hotel), collector...
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1861-1945 New York NY Collector Patron
Sheafer, Emma A. (d.1973)
Emma Alexander Sheafer was the daughter of the banker, James...
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d 1973 New York NY Collector
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Frederic Fairchild Sherman was an art collector, critics, historians, and...
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1874-1940 New York NY Collector
Shinn, Earl, 1838-1886
Earl Shinn was a contemporary art critc, an artist, and...
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1838-1886 Philadelphia PA Scholar/Critic/Expert Artist
Shore Galleries
Art Gallery operated in Boston, MA, 1918–1973...
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1918–1973 Boston MA Dealer/Gallery
Sickman, L. C. S. (Laurence C. S.)
Sickman was the director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas...
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1907-1988 Kansas City MO Collector
Sidney Janis Gallery
The gallery owned and operated by Sidney Janis, opened in...
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1951-1998 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Siegfried and Walter Laemmle
Prominent dealers of Medieval and Renaissance sculpture, the firm was...
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1894-1993 Los Angeles CA Dealer/Gallery
Signa Gallery
Commercial art gallery, founded 1957, closed 1960. Exhibited the work...
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1957-1960 East Hampton NY Dealer/Gallery
Silberman, Arthur
Arthur Silberman was a Native American art collector, curator, author...
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1929-1995 Oklahoma Collector
Sill, Joseph, 1801-1854
Collector, amateur painter...
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1801-1854 Philadephia PA Collector
Simon, Norton, 1907-1993
Norton Simon was a collector, businessman, and philanthropist, and founder...
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1907-1993 Los Angeles CA Collector Patron
Simpson, John Woodruff
John Woodruff Simpson was an art collector, patron and lawyer...
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1850-1920 New York NY Collector
Simpson, Kate Seney
Kate (Katherine) Seney Simpson was an art collector, patron and...
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c. 1869-1943 New York NY Collector
Simpson, Merton D. (Merton Daniel), 1928-
Owner of New York gallery Merton D. Simpson Gallery, Inc...
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1928– New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Singer, Anna Spencer Brugh, 1878-1962
Anna Spencer Brugh Singer was an art collector and Married...
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1878-1962 Laren Collector
Singer, Paul, 1904-
Paul Singer was an Asian art collector and psychiatrist. Over...
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1904-1997 Summit NJ Collector
Singer, William Henry, 1868-1943
Son of a Pittsburgh steel magnate (Singer and Nimick Company...
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1868-1943 Olden, Nordfjord Artist Collector
Slater, William Albert, 1857-1919
William A Slater founded the Slater Memorial Museum, in 1886...
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1857-1919 Norwich CT Collector Patron
Slick, Tom, 1916-1962
Tom Slick was a Texas oil man, explorer, inventor, businessman...
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1916-1962 San Antonio TX Collector
Smart, Mary, 1917-
Art collector, consultant, and patron; York, Maine...
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1917– York ME Collector Patron Consultant
Smelik & Stokking (Firm)
Originally "Prince," and "de Singel," and Antiquiteiten en Oude Kunst...
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1969-1994 The Hague Dealer/Gallery
Smith Anderson Gallery
Commercial art gallery showing contemporary abstract painting, works on paper...
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1963-1980 Palo Alto CA Dealer/Gallery
Smith, Charles Stewart, 1832-1909
Charles Stewart Smith (1832-1909) was an art collector and businessman...
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1832-1909 New York NY Collector
Smith, George Walter Vincent, 1832-1923
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), was born in Derby, Connecticut...
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1832-1923 Springfield MA Collector Museum
Smith, John
English dealer early 19th century founding The House of Smith...
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1781-1855 London Dealer/Gallery
Smith, Louise Reinhardt
Louise Reinhardt Smith was an art Collector, patron and Museum...
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1904-1995 New York NY Collector
Smith, Robert H.
Robert "Bob" Smith was an art collector, real estate mogul...
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1928-2009 Upperville VA Collector
Smyth, Craig Hugh
Art historian, professor of Renaissance Italian art, Smyth was involved...
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1915–2006 New York NY Scholar/Critic/Expert
Snow, E. T. (Edward Taylor), 1844-1913
Snow was a landscape painter and artist, who served as...
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1844-1913 Philadelphia PA Artist Dealer/Gallery Consultant
Snyderman, Ruth, 1937-
Art Dealer and owner of both the Snyderman and Works...
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1937– Philadelphia PA Dealer/Gallery
Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979
James Thrall Soby was a collector, critic, curator and tobacco...
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1906-1979 Norwalk CT Collector Patron Scholar/Critic/Expert
Solinger, David M., 1906-1996.
Attorney and art collector who collected 20th Century works of...
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1906-1996. New York NY Collector
Sonnabend, Ileana
Art collector, dealer, gallery owner, and Leo Castelli's first wife...
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1915-2007 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Southwick, John Claflin
John Claflin Southwick was a leather merchant and art collector...
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1835-1896 Brooklyn NY Collector
Space Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contemporary art gallery establish in 1975 by Edward Den Lau...
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1975-1995 Hollywood CA Dealer/Gallery
Spaeth, Eloise
Eloise O’Mara Spaeth was an art collector, author, a traveling...
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1902-1998 New York Collector
Spaeth, Otto
Otto Lucien Spaeth was an industrialist, art collector, co-founder...
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1897-1966 New York NY Collector
Spalding, Philip Leffingwell, 1871-1938.
Businessman and Financier, Philip Leffingwell Spalding collected early American silver...
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1871-1938 Boston MA Collector
Spark, Victor D. (Victor David), 1898-1991
New York dealer in old master paintings...
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1898-1991 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Spaulding, John Taylor, 1870-1948
John Taylor Spaulding, known as "Jack”, was a collector and...
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1870-1948 Boston MA Collector
Spaulding, William S.
William Stuart Spaulding was a businessman and collector who collected...
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1875-1937 Boston MA Collector
Sperling, Harry G
President of F. Kleinberger & Co, art dealers of New York...
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1906-1971 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Sprague, Albert Arnold
Collector and Businessman

Together with Ezra Warner and his brother...

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1835-1915 Chicago IL Collector
Sprague, Nancy Atwood
Nancy Ann Atwood was born in 1837 in Barnard, Vermont...
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1837-1916 Chicago IL Collector Patron
Spreckels, Alma de Bretteville, 1881-1968
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels known both as "Big Alma" and...
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1881-1968 San Francisco CA Collector Patron
St. Clair, Michael, 1912-1999
St. Clair was director and then owner of Babcock Galleries...
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1912-1999 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Stable Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Art gallery; New York, N.Y., owned by Eleanor Ward. Ward...
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1953-1970 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Staempfli Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Art gallery; New York, N.Y. Est. ca. 1959. Specializes in...
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1959-1988 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905
Jane Eliza Lathrop Stanford was a collector and philanthropist. She...
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1828-1905 Honolulu HI Collector
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893
Leland Stanford was an art collector, philanthropist, lawyer, politician and...
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1824-1893 San Francisco CA Collector
Stark, H. J. Lutcher
Henry Jacob Lutcher Stark was an American Western art collector...
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1887-1965 Orange TX Collector
Stebbins, James Harvey
James Harvey Stebbins was a collector of French modern paintings...
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1858-1932 Clayton NY Collector
Steel Gallery
Owned by Arthur J. Steel, gallery dealt with American artists...
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1962-1980 Bridgehampton NY Dealer/Gallery
Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
Steinchen was an American photographer, painter, collector, Director of the...
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1879-1973 New York Artist Collector Dealer/Gallery
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Author and art collector, her partner was Alice B. Tolkas...
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1874-1946 Paris Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert
Stein, Leo, 1872-1947
Leo Stien, the brother of Gertrude Stein, was an art...
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1872-1947 Settignano Collector Artist Scholar/Critic/Expert
Steinberg, Harris B.
Criminal lawyer and art collector. His collection consisted of modern...
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1912-1969 New York NY Collector
Steinhardt, Michael
Michael H. Steinhardt is an art collector, financier, founder of...
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1940– New York NY Collector
Steinitz, Kate Traumann, 1889-1975
Kate Traumann Steinitz was an artist, collector, art historian, journalist...
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1889-1975 Los Angeles CA Collector Artist Scholar/Critic/Expert
Stendahl Art Galleries
Art gallery; Los Angeles, Calif. Founded 1921 by Earl Stendahl...
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1921– Los Angeles CA Dealer/Gallery
Stenzel, Franz
Franz Robert Stenzel was a Portland physician, art collector and...
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1906-1998 Portland OR Collector
Stephen Radich Gallery
The Stephen Radich Gallery was operated by Stephen Radich. Radich...
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1960-1969 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Stern, Louis E., 1886-1962
Art collector, attorney; New York, N.Y. Born in Balta, Russia...
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1886-1962 New York NY Collector
Sterner, Marie (Marie Walther)
Marie Sterner was instrumental in advancing the cause of American...
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1880-1953 New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Stevens, Marietta Reed d. 1885
Marietta Reed Stevens, known as Mrs. Paran Stevens, was a...
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d. 1895 New York NY Collector
Stevens, Paran
Collector, horseman businessman, and hotel proprietor.

According to The Art...

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d.1872 New York NY Collector
Stewart, Alexander Turney, 1803-1876
He married Cornelia Mitchell Clinch, the daughter of Susannah Banker...
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1803-1876 New York NY Collector
Stewart, Cornelia M. Clinch
Philanthropist and collector who was married to Alexander Turney Stewart...
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ca. 1882-1886 New York NY Collector
Stiebel, Ltd.
Stiebel, ltd. is a fourth generation family concern dealing in...
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1860– New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
Stieglitz introduced modern European art to America by organizing the...
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1864-1946. New York NY Artist Dealer/Gallery Collector
Stillwell, John E. 1853-1930
Stillwell was a doctor and art collector of European and...
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1853-1930 New York NY Collector
Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867-1944) was a collector, housing reformer...
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1867-1944 New York NY Collector
Stone, Allan
Allan Stone was an art collector, dealer and lawyer.

Stone...

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1932-2006 Purchase NY Dealer/Gallery Collector
Stone, Andrew L., 1902-1999
Andrew Lysander Stone was an American motion picture film producer...
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1902-1999 San Diego CA Collector
Stora Art Galleries, Inc., New York.
Stora Art Galleries was owned and operated by the dealer...
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New York City NY Dealer/Gallery
Story, Ala
Ala Story was an art collector, curator, scholar, critic.

Story...

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1907-1972 Santa Barbara CA Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert
Stotesbury, Edward Townsend, 1849-1938
Edward Townsend Stotesbury was a collector, investment banker and partner...
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1849-1938 Philadelphia PA Collector
Strassburger, May Bourne
May Bourne Strassburger and her husband, Ralph Beaver Strassburger (1883...
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1883-1959 Gwynedd Valley PA Collector
Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, 1883-1959
Strassburger, Ralph Beaver; publisher and diplomat; b. 1883; owner and...
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1883-1959 Gwynedd Valley PA Collector
Straus, Percy Selden, 1876-1944
Percy Selden Straus was a merchant (R. H. Macy & Co...
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1876-1944 New York NY Collector
Stuart, Robert Leighton, 1806-1882
Robert Stuart Leighton was an art collector, patron, philanthropist and...
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1806-1882 New York NY Collector Patron
Stuart, Robert S.
Robert S. Stuart was an active collector and student of...
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Chestnut Hill PA Collector
Sturges, Jonathan, 1802-1874
Sturges was a businessmam, art collector, was in business with...
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1802-1874 New York NY Collector Patron
Stuyvesant, Rutherfurd, 1842-1909
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, nee Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, collected armor, china, paintings and...
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1842-1909 New York NY Collector
Suhr, William, 1896-1984
Trained in Berlin, Suhr came to the United States to...
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1896-1984 New York NY Other
Suida Manning, Bertina
Bertina Suida Manning was a scholar of Italian art and...
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ca. 1922-1992 Forrest Hills NY Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert
Suida, Wilhelm, 1877-1959
William Suida, an Austrian-born art historian who died in...
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1877-1959 New York NY Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert Consultant
Sullivan, Cornelius J.
Cornelius J. Sullivan was an art collector, patron, lawyer, and...
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1870-1932 New York NY Collector
Sullivan, Mary Quinn, 1877-1939
Mary Quinn Sullivan, nee Mary Josephine Quinn, was an art...
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1877–1939 New York NY Collector Dealer/Gallery
Sun Gallery
Art gallery in Provincetown, RI, 1952–1979...
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1952–1979 Provincetown MA Dealer/Gallery
Susan Aberbach Fine Art (New York, N.Y.)
Art gallery in New York.

Originally Aberbach Fine Art (1973-1992...

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1992– New York NY Dealer/Gallery
Susse, Amedee
19th-century French art dealer...
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1808-1880 Paris Dealer/Gallery
Sussel, Arthur J., 1889-1958.
Arthur J. Sussel was an art collector, dealer and businessman...
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1889-1958 Philadelphia PA Collector Dealer/Gallery
Sutton, James F., 1843-1915
Art dealer and Oriental art expert, member of the A...
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c. 1842-1915 New York NY Dealer/Gallery Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert
Suydam, James A., 1819-1865
James Augustus Suydam was an art collector, patron and artist...
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1819-1865 New York NY Artist Collector
Svensk-franska konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm was founded in 1918 by Gosta...
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1918-1973 Stockholm Dealer/Gallery
Swain, Charles V.
Charles V. Swain of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was a noted pewter...
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1914– Doylestown PA Collector
Swann, Erwin, 1906-1973.
Art collector, film producer, and advertising executive. He founded the...
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1906-1973 New York NY Collector
Swetzoff Gallery (Boston, Mass.)
Art gallery; Boston, Mass. Gallery originated ca. 1948 as Frameshop...
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1948-1968 Boston MA Dealer/Gallery
Sylvan Cole Gallery
Art gallery, New York, NY. Est. 1984...
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1959-1996 New York NY Dealer/Gallery