Spreckels, Alma de Bretteville, 1881-1968 |
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role
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Collector Patron |
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dates
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1881-1968 |
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city
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San Francisco |
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sex
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historical notes
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Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, known as “Big Alma” and “The Great Grandmother of San Francisco,” née Alma Charlotte Corday le Normand de Bretteville, was an art patron, collector, and philanthropist.
In addition to being a founder of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Spreckels had a hand in the Maryhill Museum of Art (Maryhill, Washington) and the San Francisco Maritime Museum.
Spreckels art collection focused on French and Ancient art and included Mycenaean, Cypriot, and Classical Greek terracottas; Egyptian faience, limestone, and bronzes; Meissen, Sevres, English, and French porcelain; work by, among others, Auguste Rodin, Jean François Colliot, Alexander Benois, and Arthur Putnam.
Spreckels was married twice. Her first husband was the sugar magnate Adolph B Spreckels (1857-1924), and her second marriage to Santa Barbara rancher and businessman Elmer Awl ended in divorce in 1943.
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decades
of activity | 1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
California Palace of the Legion of Honor records, 1910-1945. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Lloyd Howard letter, 1955 July 23. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels papers, 1920-1978. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Oral history interview with Ian McKibbin White, 1980 Nov. 24-1981 Jan. 9. |
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Syracuse University Libraries
Special Collections Research Center |
Archer Milton Huntington Papers, 1919-1957. |
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