Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997 |
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role
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Collector Patron |
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dates
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1907-1997 |
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city
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Austin |
| state | TX | | other cities | New York, NY; Doylestown, PA; Newtown, PA; Greeley, CO; Cambridge, MA; McCloud River, CA; |
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historical notes
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James Albert Michener was an art collector, patron, philanthropist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Michener was married three times. He married his first wife, Patti Koon, in 1935, it ended in divorce in 1948. His second wife was Vange Nord (married in 1948). Michener met his third wife Mari Yoriko Sabusawa at a luncheon in Chicago and they were married in 1955 (the same year as his divorce from Nord).
Michener and his wife Marie assembled a collection of 20th-century American , now housed at the University of Texas, Austin. The collection included, among others, work by Thomas Hart Benton, Hans Hoffman, Marsden Hartley and Brice Marden. The Michener’s Japanese print collection is now housed at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (approximately 6,000 prints).
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decades
of activity | 1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
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| website | http://www.michenermuseum.org |
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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James A. Michener papers, 1906-1992 |
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania |
John Milton Fogg, Jr. collection of letters and papers relating to Albert C. Barnes and the University of Pennsylvania, 1925-1984 |
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania |
Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1953-1962. |
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University of Texas, Austin
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
Eliot Elisofon Papers, 1930-1988 (bulk, 1942-1973) |
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University of Northern Colorado
James A. Michener Library, Special Collections |
James A. Michener Collection |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum |
Reel to Reel collection, 1952-1990 (bulk 1961-1990) |
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