Mary Quinn Sullivan

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

Life

Mary Quinn Sullivan was the daughter of Irish immigrants in Indianapolis, Indiana. In childhood, she attended several public schools in Indianapolis including Shortridge School. In 1899 she moved to New York City to study art at the Pratt Institute. From 1901 she taught art teaching in Queens, New York. The New York Education Committee she later sent abroad where they should observe and analyisieren the course of the curriculum at art schools in England, Scotland, and Germany.

In 1909, Sullivan became head of the art department at the DeWitt Clinton High School and oversaw the drawing curriculum at the New - York -City- primary schools. A year later she resigned from her post in order to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Upon your return, she took a job as a lecturer at Pratt Institute. There, she teaches design and home economics, Sullivan also wrote the textbook " Planning and Furnishing the Home: " Practical and Economical Suggestions for the Home Maker " ..

Private

In 1917 she married the lawyer Cornelius J. Sullivan. Together with her husband, she created a collection of American, European Art and Irish antiquities. Their 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 56th Street in New York, which she gave later to the Lois Shaw 's Gallery on Park Avenue. In April 1937 Sullivan sold a part of their collection at the Anderson Galleries.

End of 1939, Sullivan became ill and passed more pieces of their collection up for auction at the Parke -Bernet Galleries. She died in Astoria, Queens, New York from the effects of pleurisy and diabetes. Mary Quinn was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Indianapolis. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller After her death, acquired two pieces of Sullivan's collection, which are issued as errinerung Mary Quinn at the MoMa.

Services

Mary Quinn founded in November 1929 along with Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Lillie P. Bliss, the MoMA in New York and moved in 1939 after it moved three times in the next decade, the location, the building in Midtown Manhattan on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, which was the site of the MoMA is today ..

Works (selection)

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