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Hearn, George A. (George Arnold), 1835-1913 print view role Collector dates 1835-1913 city New York City state NY sex M historical notes George Arnold Hearn was and art collector and New York dry goods merchant. Hearn's art collection consisted of paintings by contemporary American artists, such as, Blakelock, Arthur B. Davies, George Fuller, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Theodore Robinson, J.S. Sargent, and Whistler. Hearn also collected ancient Chinese porcelains, ivory carvings, decorative art and artworks by seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century European painters. He also owned work by Constable, Cuyp, Hogarth, and Van Dyck. Much of his collection was donated/bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where he served as a trustee and had established the Hearn fund (1906) for the purchase of paintings by living American artists. Since Hearn’s death the terms of his gift have been interpreted as available for the purchase of works of art by artists who were alive in 1906. Hearn is discussed in Frederick Baekeland's "Collectors of American Painting, 1813-1913," American Art Review, 3, Nov.-Dec. 1976. decades of activity 1860-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:28 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328 Miscellaneous Personal Name Files (box 49) see details... Museum of the City of New York Photograph Collections Portrait of George A Hearn: Byron Company Collection see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details... Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) see details... Baltimore Museum of Art The E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library George A. Lucas papers, 1825-2003 [bulk 1824-1909] MS.10 see details... Frick Art Reference Library and Brooklyn Museum Gilded Age exhibition checklists and pamphlets digital project Modern British paintings and ancient Egyptian ivories, from the collection of Mr. Geo. A. Hearn [electronic resource] : [exhibition] Saturday, March 22, to Sunday, March 30 ... / Lotos club, New York. see details... Frick Art Reference Library and Brooklyn Museum Gilded Age exhibition checklists and pamphlets digital project Paintings from the collection of George A. Hearn, Esq. [electronic resource]. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details... «  back