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Payson, John Whitney print view role Collector Dealer/Gallery dates 1940-2016 city New York City state NY other cities Hobe Sound, FL; sex M historical notes John Whitney Payson was an art dealer, collector, son of Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975 ), and owner of the Midtown Gallery in New York, the Hobe Sound Galleries North in Portland, ME., and the Hobe Sound Galleries in Florida (Midtown Payson Galleries, Inc.). In addition to being an art dealer and inheriting a vast art collection, Payson and his former wife, Nancy Lawler Payson, also collected art. Payson permanently installed the Joan Whitney Payson Collection in the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), where his father, Charles Shipman Payson, was a patron and left seventeen paintings by Winslow Homer. decades of activity 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 2010-2020 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:29 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Midtown Galleries records, 1904-1997. see details... University of Maine, Special Collections John Muench Papers 1945-1993 see details... Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) see details... see also: Payson, Joan Whitney, 1903-1975 Midtown Galleries (New York, N.Y.) «  back