| Gund, George, 1888-1966 | ||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||
| dates | 1888-1966 | |||||||||
| city | Cleveland | |||||||||
| state | OH | |||||||||
| other cities | La Crosse, WI; | |||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:30 | |||||||||
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