Holden, Liberty Emery, 1833-1913
type Collector
dates 1833-1913
city Cleveland
stateOH
other citiesRaymond, ME; Tiffin, OH;
sex M
history Liberty Emery Holden was an art collector, attorney, proprietor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, real estate developer, owned the Hollenden Hotel, mine owner, president of the Union Club of Cleveland, mayor of Bratenahl Village, OH, trustee of Western Reserve University and Adelbert College.

Holden married Delia Elizabeth Bulkley on 14 Aug. 1860. Mrs. Holden gave the collection with additions to the Cleveland museum in 1914 (W. G. Constable, Art Collecting in the United States of America, 1964).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1912, exhibit:
Early Italian Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden 10/14/1912- 12/23/1912
decades1880-1890
1900-1910
1900-1910
updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18
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Repository Description Links
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept.
Eben Putnam Papers (Mss 399) 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...
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ingalls Library and Archives
Records of the Director's Office: Frederic Allen Whiting, 1913-1930 see details...

see alsoHolden, Delia Elizabeth