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Olyphant, Robert Morrison

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dates 1824-1918
city New York City
stateNY
sex M
historical notes Olyphant was a collector, businessman, and Rail Road Executive (President of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, 1884-1903).

Robert M. Olyphant was a close friend and art patron of John Frederick Kensett, a leading landscape painter of the Hudson River School who worked extensively in New England and Colorado. Olyphant also served as executor of Kensett's estate.

Olyphant was a fellow of the National Academy of Design, member of the American Geographical Society, the Academy of Political Science, and American Museum of Natural History.

President of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (1884-1903)

Olyphant is discussed in Frederick Baekeland's "Collectors of American Painting, 1813-1913," American Art Review, 3, Nov.-Dec. 1976.

Lent work to The Universal Exhibition held in Paris, 1867.
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1880-1890
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1900-1910
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National Academy of Design
John Frederick Kensett memorial exhibition installation at the National Academy of Design see details...
New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328
Collection of paintings by American artists (*ZM-107) see details...
Princeton University
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections
Silvia S. Bennet collection on the Olyphant family, 1764-1897. see details...