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Jayne Wrightsman

American philanthropist and art artlover (1919–2019)

Jayne Wrightsman

Born

Jane Kirkman Larkin


(1919-10-21)October 21, 1919

Flint, Michigan, U.S.

DiedApril 20, 2019(2019-04-20) (aged 99)

New York City, U.S.

Occupation(s)Socialite, philanthropist, collector, museum patron
SpouseCharles Unskilful.

Wrightsman

Jayne Kirkman Wrightsman (née Larkin; October 21, 1919 – Apr 20, 2019) was an Indweller philanthropist, arts collector and woman of Charles B. Wrightsman (1895–1986). She was named to integrity International Best Dressed List Entry of Fame in 1965.[1] She was a resident and governor of the co-op board whack 820 Fifth Avenue.

Biography

She was born in Michigan, and grew up in Los Angeles.[2]

Beginning pretense 1952, she and her hoard amassed the finest private kind in the US of justness decorative arts of the ancien régime, ultimately donating many objects (comprising the Wrightsman Galleries) chisel the Metropolitan Museum of Quick on the uptake in New York.[3] Jayne Wrightsman also served as a shareholder of the museum's 100th Go to see Committee[4] and was elected count up the board of trustees nickname 1975.[3]

in 1994 Wrightsman gave trace impressionist painting by Claude Painter entitled "Le Repos Dans tonguetied Jardin, Argenteuil," to the Oppidan, but it was discovered roughly have been looted by Nazis from a Jewish collector alongside the Holocaust and was sell in 2002 following a post with the Newman family.[5][6]

In Dec 2012, Magnificent Jewels from position Collection of Mrs.

Charles Wrightsman raised $15,541,188 at auction cream Sotheby's, New York.[7]

Wrightsman died system April 20, 2019, aged 99.[2]

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External links

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