Illuminating John Sloan was made possible through gifts from the following:
Richard E. Bishop
Richard E. Bishop (1887–1975) was a renowned game bird artist, author, photographer, conservationist and sportsman. Graduated from Cornell University in 1909 with a M.E. degree, Bishop worked as an electrical engineer for the Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, WI. In 1915, he married Mary Ellen Harrington. He was renowned for applying the knowledge gained from careful study of detailed pictures of birds in flight and field observations to his art. Bishop made a bequest of an extensive Baxter print series (66 items) within the Mary E. Harrington Print Collection to Bryn Mawr College.
Jacqueline Koldin Levine
Jacqueline Koldin Levine (b.1926) is an activist and organizational leader. Levine graduated from Bryn Mawr College,in the class of 1946 with a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science, and continues to serve on the college’s Board of Trustees. In 1949, she married Howard Levine and began her lifelong career of liberal volunteerism in 1954, joining the American Jewish Congress to protest Joseph McCarthy. Over the course of 20 years, the Levines have assembled an unparalleled collection of works by 19th-and-20th-century artists. In 2012, they gave Bryn Mawr an extraordinarily generous gift of nearly 500 pieces of art.
John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
Chicago businessman John Nichols Estabrook had many close associations to Bryn Mawr College. His sister, Laura Estabrook Romine (Class of 1939), was a Professor of Economics at Bryn Mawr from 1959 to 1961. Additionally, four of his first cousins graduated from Bryn Mawr in the late 1930s. In 1984, Mr. Estabrook willed all of his paintings and art objects, collected over a period of more than thirty years, to a number of museums, galleries, universities and colleges. More than 700 works from the estate of John N. and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook were accepted by the Bryn Mawr Collections Committee between 1987 and 1989.
Dr. and Mrs. Albert L. Rosenthal
Dr. Albert Lester Rosenthal (1926–2011) was a dermatologist and a scholar of art and history. With his wife, Carol, whom he married in 1969, he collected German Expressionist, American, Pre-Columbian, African, and Asian art. He and Carol were instrumental in building the collections of the New Jersey State Museum. Dr. Rosenthal also gave generously to other museums and institutions. In 1984, he donated The Works of Charles Paul de Kock to Bryn Mawr College.