| Hall, Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe | ||||||||||
| type | Collector Patron | |||||||||
| dates | 1911-2005 | |||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||
| other cities | Palm Beach, FL; Newport, RI; Milwaukee, WI; | |||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||
| history |
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 | 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:30 | |||||||||
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