Lowenthal, Edith

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role

Collector

dates

d. 1991

city

New York City

state

NY

sex

F

historical notes

Art collector and psychologist.

She and her husband, Milton Lowenthal, collected American paintings and sculpture of the 1930's and 40's, chiefly between the years, 1943 and 1958.

Thirty-one works left left to the Brooklyn Museum and eight to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Some of the artists they collected work by were Milton Avery, Georgia O'Keeffe, Davis, Marsden Hartley and Charles Sheeler.

decades
of activity

1940-1950
1950-1960

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Milton and Edith Lowenthal papers, 1940-1989.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Byron Browne papers, 1930-1963.	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Artist file: Lowenthal, Milton & Edith, Collection; miscellaneous uncatalogedmaterial.	see details...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives 200 Eastern Parkway	Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection [03/21/1981-05/10/1981] [01 of ], 1979 - 1981, 1979-1981	see details...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives 200 Eastern Parkway	Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection [03/21/1981-05/10/1981] [02 of ], 1980 - 1981, 1980-1981	see details...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives 200 Eastern Parkway	Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection [03/21/1981-05/10/1981] [Photographs], 1981 - 1981, 1981	see details...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives 200 Eastern Parkway	Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection [03/21/1981-05/10/1981] [Slides], 1981 - 1981, 1981	see details...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives 200 Eastern Parkway	Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection [03/21/1981-05/10/1981] [Negatives], 1981 - 1981, 1981	see details...