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Bryan Lathrop, 1846-1916

Nationality: American
Date of Birth: 1846.08.06
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Date of Death: 1916.05.13
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Identity:

Bryan Lathrop was a real estate investor, collector of prints and drawings, and Trustee of the Chicago Art Institute.

Life:

Lathrop formed a very important collection of JW's etchings, which he bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago. He moved to Chicago in 1865, where he was a member of the Caxton Club. He became a Trustee of the Art Institute in 1893/1894, a post he held until 1916. He was a member of the Orchestral Association, a Trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1894 to 1898, and then the Symphony Orchestra's Vice-President from 1894 to 1898 and President from 1899 to 1916. He was also a Trustee of the Newbery Library from 1896 to 1916 and the Guarantor of the Poetry magazine.

Bibliography:

Who Was Who in America, vol. 1, 1897-1942, Chicago, 1943; Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz, Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917, Lexington, Kentucky, 1976.