Joan Whitney Payson was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was a sports enthusiast who co-founded and was the majority owner of Major League Baseball's National League's New York Mets baseball franchise. Joan Whitney was born in New York City, the daughter of Payne Whitney and Helen Julia Hay. Her brother was John Hay Whitney. She inherited a trust fund from her grandfather, William C.

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  • Joan Whitney Payson was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was a sports enthusiast who co-founded and was the majority owner of Major League Baseball's National League's New York Mets baseball franchise. Joan Whitney was born in New York City, the daughter of Payne Whitney and Helen Julia Hay. Her brother was John Hay Whitney. She inherited a trust fund from her grandfather, William C. Whitney and on her father's passing in 1927, she received a large part of the family fortune. She married lawyer and businessman Charles Shipman Payson, a native of Maine and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. Her husband was a Board member of Pepperdine University and together they provided the funds to build the university's library that was named for them. Named in honor of her mother, in 1943 Joan Whitney Payson established and endowed the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation for medical research. An avid art collector, she purchased a variety of artwork but favored Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works with her collection containing watercolors, drawings and paintings. She owned numerous pieces including those by James McNeill Whistler, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Gustave Courbet, Maurice Prendergast, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Honoré Daumier, Joshua Reynolds, Claude Monet, Henri Rousseau, Jan Provost, Édouard Manet, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Alfred Sisley. Payson was also a strong supporter of American artists, acquiring works by Thomas Eakins, Arthur B. Davies, Andrew Wyeth and John Singer Sargent. Payson donated significant works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where the "Joan Whitney Payson Galleries" can be found.
  • Joan Whitney Payson war eine amerikanische Unternehmerin, Kunstsammlerin, Mäzenin. Als Miterbin eines der größten amerikanischen Vermögen stiftete sie finanzielle Mittel für Bildung, Gesundheitsfürsorge und Kultur. Sie unterhielt gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder eine erfolgreiche Pferdezucht und war Mitbegründerin und Mehrheitsaktionärin der Baseballmannschaft New York Mets. Teile ihrer Kunstsammlung befinden sich heute in verschiedenen amerikanischen Museen.
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  • Joan Whitney Payson
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  • Joan Whitney Payson was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was a sports enthusiast who co-founded and was the majority owner of Major League Baseball's National League's New York Mets baseball franchise. Joan Whitney was born in New York City, the daughter of Payne Whitney and Helen Julia Hay. Her brother was John Hay Whitney. She inherited a trust fund from her grandfather, William C.
  • Joan Whitney Payson war eine amerikanische Unternehmerin, Kunstsammlerin, Mäzenin. Als Miterbin eines der größten amerikanischen Vermögen stiftete sie finanzielle Mittel für Bildung, Gesundheitsfürsorge und Kultur. Sie unterhielt gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder eine erfolgreiche Pferdezucht und war Mitbegründerin und Mehrheitsaktionärin der Baseballmannschaft New York Mets. Teile ihrer Kunstsammlung befinden sich heute in verschiedenen amerikanischen Museen.
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