MARTIN ANTOINE RYERSON
Name: Martin Antoine Ryerson
Born: 1856 Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
Died: 1932
Businessman and collector, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. His family moved
to Chicago, and he was educated in Paris and Switzerland, then graduated from
Harvard Law School (1878). He took over his father's lumber business, was a
director of many other companies, and retired from business in the 1890s. He
devoted himself to collecting French Impressionist paintings, and to
philanthropic activities for the Chicago Institute of Arts, the Field Museum of
Natural History, and the University of Chicago. He presented his collection to
the Chicago Institute of Art (1901) and endowed their art library.
Name: Martin Antoine Ryerson
Born: 1856 Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
Died: 1932
Businessman and collector, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. His family moved
to Chicago, and he was educated in Paris and Switzerland, then graduated from
Harvard Law School (1878). He took over his father's lumber business, was a
director of many other companies, and retired from business in the 1890s. He
devoted himself to collecting French Impressionist paintings, and to
philanthropic activities for the Chicago Institute of Arts, the Field Museum of
Natural History, and the University of Chicago. He presented his collection to
the Chicago Institute of Art (1901) and endowed their art library.