Belle Linsky

Belle Linsky
Born1904 
Died1987  (aged 82–83)

Belle Linsky (1904–1987) was a businesswoman and philanthropist who was a Swingline Inc. executive with her husband, Swingline's president Jack Linsky. In 1982, she donated much of her art collection, valued at $90 million, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1][2]

Life

Belle Linsky was born in Kiev[3] in 1904,[4] and came to the United States as a child.[5] With her husband she owned 19 percent of the stock of the Swingline corporation, based in New York City at the time, which they sold to American Brands Inc. in 1970 for $210 million. She was treasurer of Swingline at the time of the sale and Jack Linsky was inventor, president, and chairman. Jack Linsky and Belle Linsky had a daughter named Muriel.[6][3]

At the end of her life Belle Linsky lived in Palm Beach, Florida and Manhattan, New York where much of her art collection is now housed at The Met.[2][7] She died in New York on Monday, September 28, 1987.[8]

Philanthropy and art collection

In 1965 Jack and Belle Linsky endowed for $7 million a pavilion that bears their name at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.[3][8]

Belle and her husband, Jack Linsky, started collecting art during The Great Depression, and through profits procured by ownership of Swingline the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection of art was made gathered.[1] After Mr. Jack Linsky died in 1980, much of the Linsky family art collection was retained.[1] In 1982, Mrs. Linsky decided to donate to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York now known as The Met, and other American museums also received donations. The art collection of Belle Linsky includes more than 1000 objects.[1][9] Most of the art collected by Belle Linsky is housed in the 3,980 square-foot Jack and Belle Linsky Galleries[10][11] at the museum.[8][12]

At a point in time Belle Linsky had the largest Fabergé egg collection in America.[13]

See Also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Glueck, Grace (March 4, 1982). "MET is given $60 million Linsky art collection". The New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Archives Directory for the History of Collecting". research.frick.org.
  3. ^ a b c Goldman, Julia (June 21, 2002). "Staples Of N.Y. Jewish Life". The New York Jewish Week. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Vincent, Clare; Leopold, Jan Hendrik; Sullivan, Elizabeth (February 2, 2016). European clocks and watches in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 6. ISBN 9781588395795. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  5. ^ Reif, Rita (June 24, 1984). "Antiques View; Portraits in Porcelain". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "American Brands Announces Plans to Acquire Swingline". The Bridgeport Post. Associated Press. March 26, 1970. p. 44. Retrieved February 12, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Eubanks, Joyce Rowland (April 4, 1982). "Belle Linsky Donates Fine Art". Palm Beach Daily News. Palm Beach, Florida. p. 15. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Belle Linsky, Philanthropist And Art Collector, Dies at 83". The New York Times. October 1, 1987. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  9. ^ O'Neill, John P., ed. (1984). The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  10. ^ MacArthur, John R. (October 16, 2001). The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy. University of California Press. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-520-23178-8.
  11. ^ Winship, Frederick A. (June 30, 1984). "Art collected by Horatio Alger-type couple goes on permanent display at Met Museum". UPI. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  12. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1984). Annual Report of the Trustees. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  13. ^ Korkki, Phyllis (March 23, 2013). "The Attachment That Still Makes Noise". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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