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Franklin, Harry A. print view role Collector Dealer/Gallery dates 1904-1983 city Beverly Hills state CA sex M historical notes Harry A. Franklin was an African and Oceanic art collector, dealer and textile executive. He and his wife, Ruth, built a collection of Oceanic and African Art. Consigned by their daughter, Valerie Franklin-Nordin, Franklin's collection of African art was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1990 and included, among 400 other ethnographic objects, roughly 80 works from Cameroon (masks, exotic anthropomorphic carvings, stools, maternity figures, drums, brass necklaces and chief's regalia). In 2008 Valerie donated the family’s collection of Oceanic art to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. The donation consisted of artworks from Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu and included painted bark panels, masks, sculptural figures, ancestral boards, and drums. decades of activity 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 updated 02/14/2025 10:12:25 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 The Chaim Gross Papers, 1920-2004 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 The Jacques Lipchitz papers and Bruce Bassett papers concerning Jacques Lipchitz, 1910-2001, bulk 1941-2001 see details... «  back