Hall, Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe |
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Collector Patron |
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1911-2005 |
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New York City |
state | NY | other cities | Palm Beach, FL; Newport, RI; Milwaukee, WI; |
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F |
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Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall was a philanthropist, art collector and patron.
With her second husband, William Jaffe, she collected European paintings, sculpture and antique furniture, Chinese porcelain, pre-Colombian artifacts and Renaissance drawings. Her collection included work by, among others, Bonnard, Picasso, Miró, Vuillard, and Munch.
Hall was a trustee and member of the Museum of Modern Art's International Council, a benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and Yale University (financing a scholarship in art history) and endowed the Jaffe-Friede Art Gallery at Dartmouth College.
Hall was married three times; her first marriage, to Kenneth Friede (d. 1982), ended in divorce and in 1947, her second husband was the corporate lawyer William B Jaffe(1904-1972), and her final husband was Melville Hall (d.1991).
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decades of activity | 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010
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