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historical notes
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Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes was an art collector, entrepreneur, and scientist (research director, Eli Lilly and Company).
Clowes and his wife, née Edith Edith Whitehill Hinkel (1885–1967), amassed an art collection which included primarily paintings by European Old Masters. The collection included work by, or attributed to, among others, Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721), Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, 1500-1575), Workshop of El Greco (Greek, 1541-1614), Master of Badia a Isola (Italian), After Hans Holbein the younger (German, 1497-1543), Pere Vall (Spanish, 1380-1480), Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, 1373-1452), Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792), John Constable (British, 1776-1837), and a follower of Fra Angelico (Italian, 1390-1455).
The collection originally hung in their home, Westerley, then after the death of Dr. Clowes, though Mrs. Clowes continued to buy art, it became property of the Clowes foundation. In 1971, the foundation moved the collection to a new building, Clowes Pavilion, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). In 1999, the directors of foundation donated the entire collection to the museum—the move would take place over a number of years before completed.
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