| McKean, Hugh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1908-1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | Winter Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | FL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Beaver Falls, PA; Orlando, FL; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; Cambridge, MA; Williamstown, MA; Cold Spring Harbor, NY; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Hugh Ferguson McKean (1908–95), was an art collector, educator (president of Rollins College from 1951-1969), museum director (Morse Museum of American Art, 1945-1995), and artist. With his wife Jeannette Genius McKean (1908–89, m. 1945), Mckean built the Morse Museum of American Art’s collection. The collection included work by Louis Comfort Tiffany and French glass makers Gallé, Louis Majorelle, and René Lalique; American pottery, jewelry, metalwork, paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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| decades | 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 |
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