John Gellatly Dies

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Summary

Art collector John Gellatly dies, two years after donating his collection of 1,640 art works to the United States under the care of the Smithsonian Institution.

Subject

  • Gellatly, John 1853-1931
  • National Collection of Fine Arts)
  • National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian)
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution, Catalog of American and European Paintings in the Gellatly Collection (4th Edition), Baltimore, MD. The Lord Baltimore Press, 1954, p. 3

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

November 8, 1931

Topic

  • Art
  • Benefactors
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Deaths
  • Gifts
  • History
  • Art--History
  • Art objects

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