Payson, Charles Shipman
type Collector
dates 1899-1985
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesPortland, ME; Indian Town, FL; Sands Point, NY;
sex M
history Collector, philanthropist, lawyer, and businessman, sportsman who was married to Joan Whitney Payson.

Payson donated 17 paintings to the Portland Museum of Art, by Winslow Homer and gave $8 million to construct a building, by Henry Nichols Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners, in which they would be housed. (http://www.portlandmuseum.org/about/facts/payson.shtml)

After Joan's death, Payson married writer and sportswoman Virginia Kraft.
decades1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1880-1890
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Repository Description Links
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Special Collections and University Archives
Mark H. McCormack Papers, 1920-2008 (bulk 1957-2003)
MS 700
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Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
5 Monument Square
Portland Museum of Art : Charles Shipman Payson Building, 1983 see details...

see alsoPayson, Joan Whitney, 1903-1975