| Hyde, James H. (James Hazen), 1876-1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1876-1959 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Saratoga Springs, NY; Cambridge, MA;Versailles, Paris, France; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
James Hazen Hyde was a businessman, socialite, art collector, philanthropist and Francophile. Born on June 6, 1876 he was the son of the founder of Equitable Life Assurance Society, Henry Baldwin Hyde, and served as the company’s president from 1899-1905. After a business scandal and selling his business interests to Thomas Fortune Ryan, Hyde lived in self excile in Paris from 1905- 1941. Hyde’s art collection of paintings, porcelains, engravings and tapestries was distributed to several museums, including Cooper Union, now the Cooper-Hewitt, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Hyde was a founder of the Alliance Française in 1953; chosen as chairman of the executive committee of the Federation of French Alliances in the United States; and, awarded the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor. The Manuscript Department of the New York Historical Society has Hyde's correspondence, diaries and other papers from 1891 to 1940. The Society also owns an oil portrait of Hyde by Theobald Chartran, from 1901. The New York Historical Society Prints Department holds 766 prints and some posters from the 16th-20th centuries collected by Hyde. There are also a number of playing cards, caricatures, and popular prints from Épinal. The Metropolitan Museum and The Brooklyn Museum have prints, drawings (61 in MMA) and decorative objects representing the Four Continents from Hyde. The Cooper Hewitt has original ceramic furniture and other decorative art objects (ca. 130 pieces), as well as Hyde's collection of photographs of personifications of the Four Continents (ca. 4000 pieces). The Library of Congress black and white film negatives of the Cooper Hewitt's photographs, and the National Gallery of Art has a tapestry donated by Hyde. |
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| decades | 1900-1910 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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