| Morris, John Thompson, 1847-1915 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1847-1915 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | PA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
John Thompson Morris (1847-1915), the president of I.P. Morris and Company, an ironworks concern, was a decorative art collector and a founder of the Morris Arboretum. Morris gifted his collection which he formed with his sister, Lydia T Morris (1849-1932), to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art), where he had served as a Trustee for twenty-three years and as Vice President of the museum’s corporation from 1897 to 1904. His gift of 1,500 objects included modern European glassware and metalwork, American ceramics from the mid to late 18th century and 19th century, 12th-15th century tiles, and Japanese sculpture and arms and armor of the Edo Period. Morris and his sister’s summer estate “Compton" in the Chestnut Hill area became the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania in 1932. |
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| decades | 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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