Mary Quinn Sullivan

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Mary Quinn Sullivan (* 1877 in Indianapolis ; † 1939 ), born Mary Josephine Quinn , was an American art teacher, later also an art collector , gallery owner and one of the three founding curators of the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMa).

Life

Mary Quinn Sullivan was born to Irish immigrants in Indianapolis , Indiana . As a child, she attended several Indianapolis public schools including the Shortridge School. In 1899 she moved to New York City to study art at the Pratt Institute . From 1901 she taught art in Queens , New York. The New York Apprenticeship Board later sent her abroad to monitor and analyze the curriculum at art schools in England , Scotland , and Germany .

In 1909, Sullivan became head of the arts department at DeWitt Clinton High School and oversaw the drawing curriculum at New York City elementary schools. A year later, she resigned from her post to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London . Upon her return, she accepted a position as a lecturer at the Pratt Institute. There she teaches design and housekeeping , and Sullivan also wrote the textbook “Planning and Furnishing the Home: Practical and Economical Suggestions for the Homemaker”.

Private

In 1917 she married the lawyer Cornelius J. Sullivan. Together with her husband, she created a collection of American, European art and Irish antiquity. Her collection included works by, among others, Paul Cézanne , Vincent van Gogh , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Paul Gauguin , Pablo Picasso , André Derain , Amedeo Modigliani , Georges Seurat , Davies , Diego Rivera , Honoré Daumier , Chaim Soutine , Georges Rouault , Odilon Redon , Maurice Utrillo , Dufy and Charles Demuth .

Her husband died in 1932, the same year Sullivan opened an art gallery on the 56 th Street in New York, which she later at the Lois Shaw's Gallery in the Park Avenue gave. In April 1937, Sullivan sold part of their collection to the Anderson Galleries.

In late 1939, Sullivan fell ill and gave more of her collection to the Parke-Bernet Galleries for auction . She died in Astoria , Queens, New York of complications from pleurisy and diabetes . Mary Quinn was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Indianapolis . After her death, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller acquired two pieces from Sullivan's collection, which are on display at MoMa in memory of Mary Quinn.

Services

Mary Quinn founded in November 1929 along with Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Lillie P. Bliss , MoMA in New York and moved in 1939 after three times changed the location for the next ten years, the building in midtown Manhattan on the 53 rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue , which is still the location of MoMA today.

Works (selection)

  • 1923: Planning and Furnishing the Home: Practical and Economical Suggestions for the Homemaker . ISBN 978-1-273-59399-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notable American Women p. 408
  2. ^ The Frick Collection
  3. ↑ museum-modern-art-moma-new-york
personal data
SURNAME Sullivan, Mary Quinn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quinn, Mary Josephine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art teacher, art collector, and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis
DATE OF DEATH 1939