Payson, John Whitney
type Collector Dealer/Gallery
dates 1940-2016
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesHobe Sound, FL;
sex M
history 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.

decades1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-2010
2010-2020
updated 03/22/2024 12:09:29
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Repository Description Links
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 alsoPayson, Joan Whitney, 1903-1975
Midtown Galleries (New York, N.Y.)