W.Averell Harriman
Nationality: US
Date of birth: 1891
Date of death: 1986
Category: politician, statesman, collector
Date of birth: 1891
Date of death: 1986
Category: politician, statesman, collector
Identity:
His second wife was Marie Norton Harriman (1903-1970). He was a Democrat, Governor of New York from 1955 to 1959, and he served four US Presidents in key diplomatic roles.
Life:
They donated The Sea, Pourville, No. 2 y519 to the Albany Institute of History and Art, N.Y., which sold it.
Bibliography:
Obituary New York Times, 27 July 1986 ; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .
