| Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Patron | ||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1907-1996 | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | ||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Boston, MA; Rochester, NY; | ||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Art collector, patron, critic, American writer, poet, novelist, historian, and a cofounder of the New York City Ballet. Kirstein collected work by Elie Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, Paul Cadmus, Pavel Tchelitchew, Walker Evans, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens While an undergraduate at Harvard, Kirstein edited Hound and Horn and helped run the Society for Contemporary Art. In 1941 Mr. Kirstein married Fidelma Cadmus, the sister of the painter Paul Cadmus; she died in 1991. During his 1958-1959 American dance tour for Gagaku, Japan, Kirstein collected Japanese Prints (200 total) dated from 1861 to 1912, he later donated them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ca. 1961. |
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| decades | 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:17 | ||||||||||||||||||
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