| Sullivan, Mary Quinn, 1877-1939 | |||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Dealer/Gallery | ||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1877-1939 | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | ||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Indianapolis, IN; London; Block Island, RI; | ||||||||||||||||||
| sex | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Mary Quinn Sullivan, nee Mary Josephine Quinn, was an art collector, dealer and a founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. Together with her husband, Cornelius J Sullivan, she formed a collection of American and European art, and Irish antiquities. Their collection included work by, among others, Cézanne, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Picasso, Derain, Modigliani, Seurat, Picasso, Davies, Rivera, Daumier, Soutine, Rouault, Derain, Redon, Utrillo, Dufy and Demuth. Her husband died in 1932, and Sullivan sold a portion of their collection at Anderson Galleries in April of 1937. The same year that her husband died, Sullivan opened a gallery on E. 56th St. in New York City which later moved to a space in Lois Shaw's gallery on Park Avenue. In late 1939 Sullivan consigned work from her collection for auction at Parke-Bernet. She died in Astoria, Queens on the night before the two-night sale (Dec. 6 & 7, 1939). |
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| decades | 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:17 | ||||||||||||||||||
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