American Art Collector

14 1864 jonesboro tenn u s d.

American art collector. The art collector bill arnett in 2007 with mary ann pettway one of many quilters from gee s bend ala whose work had caught his eye. Through their judicious purchase of works of art by artists living in paris as well as lesser known artists in the united states claribel cone b. Primarily centered on black people and black women artists the works range from. Courted by every major museum the couple astounded the art world by transferring their entire collection worth several million dollars to the national gallery of art.

Cone sisters american art collectors who assembled an exceptional collection of art. Peggy guggenheim american art collector who was an important patron of the abstract expressionist school of artists in new york city. Guggenheim who founded the. An emphatic collector with a keen historical and cultural understanding of the items he has accrued over 44 years edwards stay close with his art in fact he lives it.

Over four years he paid 1 3 million for more than 500 quilts. The art for all of these. The art collection and the library s holding of more than 250 000 books and periodicals 80 000 auction catalogs and a million photographs much of it pertaining to american collecting. The brown brief is part of the kinsey collection an extraordinary repository of art books documents and artifacts that chronicle black america from 1595 to the present.

Peggy s father was benjamin guggenheim a son of the wealthy mining magnate meyer guggenheim and one of her uncles was solomon r.