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Walter Percy Chrysler Jr. (March 27, 1909 – September 17, 1988) was an American art collector, museum benefactor, and collector of other objects such as stamps, rare books, and glassworks. He was also a theatre and film producer.
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909–1988), the son of the founder of the Chrysler Corporation, was one of America’s preeminent art collectors. He focused his acquisitions largely on twentieth-century art, American and Old Master paintings, sculpture, and glass.
Jul 15, 2021 · A major figure in the New York art scene both before and after World War II, Chrysler achieved his most enduring fame beginning in 1971, when he began a series of spectacular art donations that transformed the modest Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences into a cultural powerhouse, the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, American automotive industry executive and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation.
Jun 11, 2020 · Walter P. Chrysler, after a stellar career at General Motors’ Buick division from 1911 to 1919, had tried to turn around major industry player Willys–Overland, for which he was paid one million dollars a year (equivalent to $15 million in 2020 dollars).
Oct 14, 2021 · In fact, Walter would soon be aiming to build an encyclopedic collection worthy of its own museum, and the Look article’s title—”Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Exhibits His Personal History of Art”—seems to foreshadow that grandiose ambition. Export Document, Rene Haas, Paris, 1954.
Sep 19, 1988 · Walter P. Chrysler Jr., one of the country's leading art collectors and benefactors whose reputation as a shrewd judge of talent was tainted by suspicions that he knowingly attained forged works,...
Walter Percy Chrysler, Jr., heir to the Chrysler Corporation, was an American businessman and important collector of art. From the 1930s to the 1980s, he amassed a diverse collection of ancient art, sixteenth- to nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture, European and American modernism, and photography.
The son of automobile magnate Walter Percy Chrysler and his wife, Delia B. Forker, Walter Chrysler, Jr. was a descendant of Tuenis Van Dolsen, the first male child born in New Amsterdam [now Manhattan], New York. Encouraged by his father, Walter Jr. began collecting at an early age.
May 27, 1909 - Sep 17, 1988. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr. was an American art collector, museum benefactor, and collector of other objects such as stamps, rare books, and glassworks. He was also...
