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Article: A nineteenth-century art patron and collector.(Elias Lyman Magoon )(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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As early as 1864, the Reverend Elias Lyman Magoon (1810-1886) foresaw the potential benefits of creating an art museum on a university campus. To this end he convinced Matthew Vassar, the founder of the college in Poughkeepsie, New York, that still bears his name, to purchase his enormous and important collection of American and English art. By that date Magoon had commissioned or purchased some three hundred paintings, most of them American landscape and genre scenes, as well as more than thirty-seven hundred works on paper, the vast majority by English artists. A selection of seventy works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, engravings, and woodcuts comprise an ...