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Fosburgh, Minnie Astor

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dates 1906-1978
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesBaltimore, MD; Boston, MA;
sex F
historical notes Mary "Minnie" Cushing Astor Fosburgh, nee Mary Benedict Cushing, was a philanthropist and art collector. Fosburgh was a trustee of the Yale Art Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Fosburgh and her second husband, James Whitney Fosburgh (1910-1978), built an art collection which included work by Paul Cézanne, Winslow Homer, William Nicholson, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Walter Sickert, and Pavel Tchelitchew.

Fosburgh's first mariage to Vincent Astor (1891–1959) ended in the divorce in 1953, and that same year she married James Whitney Fosburgh.
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1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
James Whitney Fosburgh papers, 1937-1978. see details...

see also:
Whitney, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, 1908-1998
Fosburgh, James Whitney
Paley, Babe Mortimer