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Gund, George, 1888-1966 print view role Collector dates 1888-1966 city Cleveland state OH other cities La Crosse, WI; sex M historical notes Collector, banking and real estate entrepreneur who became president of the Cleveland Trust Co. in 1941. He made a considerable amount of money when he sold his rights to Sanka Coffee. Gund's Collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century art of the American West included oil paintings, watercolors, sketches, lithographs and sculptures, by Frederic S. Remington, Charles M. Russell, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Morna, Henry Farny, Frank Tenney Johnson, William R. Leigh, Alfred Jacob Miller and Charles Schreyvogel. Gund began collecting American Western art in 1929, his acquisitions at first reflecting his interest in ranching, and then his readings and personal recollections of the West – a saga of cowboys, Native Americans and animals struggling to survive against one another and against the West itself. The collection is now housed in the Gund Gallery of Western Art at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN. decades of activity 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 updated 02/14/2025 10:12:24 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Western Reserve Historical Society Library Ameritrust Corporation records, 1882-1991, 1893-1991. see details... The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library and Archives Records of the Director's Office: William Mathewson Milliken, 1930-1958 see details... see also: Gund, Agnes «  back