Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913-1993

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role

Collector

dates

1913-1993

city

St. Louis

state

MO

other cities

Cambridge, MA; Saint Paul, MN;

sex

M

historical notes

Joseph Pulitzer was a publisher (Pulitzer Publishing Co) and art collector

Together with his second wife Emily Rauh (m. 1973), he formed a modern-art collection and was a patron of both Harvard's Fogg and the St. Louis Art Museum.

Emily Rauh and Joseph Pulitzer III collection included works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Constantin Brancusi mingle with those of a more immediate generation: Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra and Roy Lichtenstein.

Pulitzer's first wife, Louise Vauclain Pulitzer, died in 1968.

Glueck, Grace "A GALLERY OF OWNERS AND THEIR TROVES" New York Times, 3 May, 1987, retrieved 7/16/2008

decades
of activity

1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990

website

http://www.pulitzer.org/boardmember/8010/1969

updated

02/14/2025 10:12:23

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Joseph Pulitzer, 1985 July 9	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Joseph Pulitzer lecture, 1988 Apr. 16.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Joseph Pulitzer, 1978 Jan. 11	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Stephen Greene papers, 1945-1969.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	American Committee of the Statue of Liberty records, 1875-1901.	see details...
Library of Congress Manuscript Division	Papers of Joseph Pulitzer, 1897-1958 (bulk 1925-1955).	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Otto and Ilse Gerson papers, 1933-1980.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Richard Serra lecture, 1988 Apr. 16.	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...