Schoenborn, Florene May
type Collector
dates 1903-1995
city Chicago
stateIL
sex F
history Art collector and Samuel A Marx's widow.

The Marx collection included works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Dubuffet, Raoul Dafy, Juan Gris, Roger de La Fresnaye, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault and Chaim Soutine.

According to the New York Time she left 32 works by artists like Picasso, Brancusi, Bonnard and Braque to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art.

She also left smaller gifts to Art Institute of Chicago and St. Louis Art Museum.
decades1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
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Repository Description Links
The Museum of Modern Art
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Florene May Schoenborn (1903-1995), a memorial tribute [sound recording] see details...

see alsoMarx, Samuel A., 1885-1964