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Frank Gair Macomber
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Frank Gair Macomber

1849 - 1941
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Biographycollector, Chinese. MFA

Frank Gair Macomber, 1849-1941
Nationality: American
Date of Birth: 1849

Identity:
Frank Gair Macomber was a collector and a donor to Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Life:
Macomber owned several works by JW including a watercolour, Blue and Silver: The Thames m0875; Study for the Head of Miss Cicely H. Alexander y128; two etchings; a pastel r.: Two Standing Figures; v.: Figure m0464 and one other pastel (letter from Macomber's daughter Isabella Macomber Lyman to Frederick W. Coburn, 8 November 1945, GUL, MS Revillon 2/64/2). He was also a collector of tapestries and armour. The sale of his collection took place at the American Art Association, New York on 10-12 December 1936.

Bibliography:
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995.
http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/biog/?nid=Maco1 I.S. 12/28/2017
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