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historical notes
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Walter C. Sedgwick has a long-standing interest in conservation and has served on the boards of a range of conservation non-profits including National Audubon Society, Land Trust Alliance, The Nature Conservancy – Florida, the Pacific Forest Trust, and Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.
Sedgwick’s father, Ellery Sedgwick, was the owner-editor of The Atlantic Monthly and an avid collector of Chinese and Japanese art. Sedgwick added to that collection, assembling “what is unquestionably the largest, finest and most comprehensive museum collection of early Chinese ceramics in the West” in the 1990s. Through the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Sedgwick purchased works expressly to strengthen Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Musem’s holdings and then enabled the museum to acquire that collection as well as works from his personal holdings of early Asian art. |
