The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help
Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
 
Semantic View (JSONJSONLDRDFN3/TurtleN-Triples)

ID: 500449470
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500449470

 

Record Type: Person
Avnet, Joan (American businesswoman and art dealer, 1914-1994)

Note: Co-founder of Avnet, Inc., a distributor of electronics components. With her husband Lester, collected Old Master and Modern drawings. acquired 900 works between 1960 and 1970, donating 180 to MoMA in 1978. Joan had a gallery in Great Neck LI in 1960s, later was a private art dealer in New York and Palm Beach FL.

Names:
Avnet, Joan (preferred,U,index)
Joan Avnet (U,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
businesswoman (preferred)
art dealer
collector

Gender: female

Events:
active:   Great Neck (Nassau county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
spouse of ....  Avnet, Lester  
................  (American businessman and collector, 1913-1970) [500445419]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Avnet, Joan (I,U)

Biographies:
(American businesswoman and art dealer, 1914-1994) ..... [PROV Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Avnet, Joan ........ [PROV Preferred]
........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Joan Avnet ........ [PROV, VP]
......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [PROV, VP]
....................  NY Times, January 15 1994, Joan Avnet's obit
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version

The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust