1. Anson Conger Goodyear was an American manufacturer, businessman, author, and philanthropist and member of the Goodyear family.
17 Facts About Anson Goodyear
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Anson Goodyear is best known as one of the founding members and first president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Anson Goodyear was educated at the Nichols School in Buffalo.
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Anson Goodyear expanded the collection later, obtaining most of the letters of William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield.
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Anson Goodyear was president of the Great Southern Lumber Company, based in Buffalo and operating a sawmill and related industry in Bogalusa, Louisiana ; and served as vice president of the Marine National Bank.
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Anson Goodyear served as chairman of the board of directors of Gaylord Container Corporation, a successor to the Great Southern Lumber Company; director of Paramount Pictures, director of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and as an executive or director of several other corporations.
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Active in the New York National Guard, Anson Goodyear served as a colonel in World War I and was the executive officer of the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky.
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Anson Goodyear was invited by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Lillie P Bliss to help establish the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Anson Goodyear served as its first president, and as a member of the board of trustees of MOMA, after moving to New York City.
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Anson Goodyear traveled to Europe at his own expense to collect paintings for the museum's first showing.
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Anson Goodyear donated a collection of Civil War materials he had compiled to Yale University in 1953.
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Anson Goodyear bequeathed many important works, including Giacomo Balla's Dinamismo di un Cane al Guinzaglio, 1912; Salvador Dali's The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image, 1938; and Frida Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938.
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Anson Goodyear was a close friend of actress and theater producer Katharine Cornell, from Buffalo.
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Anson Goodyear was a director of the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts, an honorary governor of the New York Hospital, and a donor to Dartmouth College.
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Anson Goodyear was a member of the Saturn Club in Buffalo.
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On June 29,1904, Goodyear married Mary Martha Forman, the only daughter of George V Forman, of Buffalo.
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Anson Goodyear died in Old Westbury, New York on April 24,1964.