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Dodge, Anna Thomson, 1871-1970 print view role Collector dates 1871-1970 city Grosse Point Farms state MI other cities Palm Beach, FL; London, United Kingdom; Southampton, NY; Dundee, United Kingdom; sex F historical notes Anna Thomson Dodge, nee Christina Anna Thomson, was an art collector, philanthropist and automotive heiress. The Dodge collection included eighteenth-century French and English fine and decorative arts (furniture, sculpture, tapestries, jewelry, porcelain, and paintings). The collection included, among other items, a coffee pot by Paul de Lamerie, furniture adorned with Marie Antoinette’s monogram, candelabra made for the palace of Versailles, writing table from the bedroom of the Grand Duchess Marie Feodrovna (later Czarina of Paul) and paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Sir Gerald Kelly. Along with a million dollar fund, Dodge left the contents of her Grosse Point mansion’s music room to the Detroit Institute of Arts. At her 1971 auctions, held in London, French furniture sold for $1.6 million, silver realized $286,000, and her Chinese porcelains and jades reached $207,000. Anna was married twice, first in 1896 to the automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company Horace Elgin Dodge, Sr. (May 17, 1868 – December 10, 1920); and then in 1926 she married the stock actor Hugh Dillman (aka Hugh Dillman McGaughy) and they divorced in 1947. decades of activity 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:30 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 Detroit Historical Society The Remaining Contents of Rose Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, U.S.A. The Property of the late Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge see details... «  back