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The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone
By: Mary GabrielImprint: Bancroft Press
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For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent art museum in the world, all anxious to house their hitherto private assemblage of modern art. In 1949, they awarded all their holdings to the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2002, that collection was valued at nearly $1 billion, making them two of the most philanthropic art collectors of our age. Yet, for complex reasons, the story of the Cone sisters has never been fully or accurately told. Mary Gabriel, an art-minded journalist and women's historian, has, at long last, brought the little-known sisters to life, and shone the spotlight on their remarkable achievements.
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| Title of eBook: The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone | |
| Release Date: 08-23-2010 | |
| Publisher: Bancroft Press |
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The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone
Chapter One
Two Sisters* * *
Baltimore, 1872
I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! But I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want: consequence I do not want. –Jane Austen, Emma, 1816
Claribel and Etta Cone were among thirteen children born to Herman Kahn of Bavaria, and his sweetheart Helen Guggenheimer, whom he married in Richmond, Virginia, in 1856. The young couple, now bearing the anglicized last name of Cone, did not stay long in Richmond, however.
The established Jewish community there scorned him as a new immigrant, the family history indicates, and his "friends" so wanted him out of town that they gave him a stock of goods and a horse and wagon to set himself up elsewhere as a salesman.
Cone moved his growing family to Jonesborough, Tennessee, where Etta and Claribel were born, but life was not easy there, either. The Civil War forced the closure of the store Herman Cone started with a cousin. Cone and his partner were Conferederate sympathetizers. Many of their East Tennessee neighbors were Unionists. That, coupled with the order by General Ulysses S. Grant to expel "the Jews as a class" from Tennessee, compelled Cone to move his family to a farm to wait out the war.
After the fighting ended, Cone's reputation as a Confederate sympathizer lingered, and he and his partner found it necessary to add a Union man to their partnership
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