Straus, Percy Selden, 1876-1944 |
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Collector |
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dates
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1876-1944 |
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city
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Cambridge, MA; Port Chester, NY; |
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historical notes
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Percy Selden Straus was a merchant (R. H. Macy & Co.) and art collector.
He married the daughter of a Brooklyn department store founder (Abraham and Straus), Edith Abraham Straus, in 1902. Together they formed an art collection of European paintings spanning the 13th - 19th centuries which was left to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1944 (pledged in 1941).
The Straus collection comprised of 82 works of art and included examples of Flemish, Sienese, Florentine, Ferrarese, Venetian, German, and English origin.
Straus belonged to the Council of Foreign Relations, Harvard of Boston and New York, Century, Metropolitan of Wahsington, D.C. and Westchester Country Clubs.
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decades
of activity | 1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |
The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Edith A. and Percy S. Straus collection: papers, 1917-1958. |
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Harvard Art Museum Archives
32 Quincy Street |
Paul J. Sachs Papers, 1903-2005. |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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James H. Chillman, Jr. correspondence and miscellaneous subjects, 1924-1970. |
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The New York Public Library
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Committee of Fourteen records, 1905-1932. |
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