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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART FROM
THE COLLECTION OF BRUCE DAYTON

AND RUTH STRICKER DAYTON

古韻心源：布魯斯•代頓及司路德伉儷珍藏

LOT RANGE 71–129

There have been few art collectors more influential than 布魯斯•代頓（1918-2015）和司路德（1935-2020）
Bruce Dayton (1918-2015) and Ruth Stricker Dayton 伉儷在整個藝術收藏圈可謂影響力極高。代頓伉儷長
(1935-2020). Longtime philanthropists and supporters 年支持公益事業，且身為明尼亞波利斯美術館的捐助
of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), the Daytons’ 人，他們樂善好施，在藝術方面亦明辨善鑑，二人兼
immense generosity, impeccable eye, eclectic interests, 容並蓄的品味和孜孜求索的精神，引領著美術館建立
and continual curiosity shaped the institution into one 起了廣博的藝術品收藏。先生畢生向明尼亞波利斯美
of the leading encyclopedic art collections in America. 術館捐出共逾二千件藏品，涵蓋種類廣泛，包括愛德
Throughout his lifetime, Bruce Dayton donated over 華•馬奈的《吸煙者》、恩斯特•路德維格•克爾希
2,000 gifts of art to the Mia spanning a broad range of 納的《蘇黎世》、尼可拉斯•米尼亞德的《維納斯與
categories, including masterpieces like Édouard Manet’s 阿多尼斯》等歷代大師名畫。尤其值得一提的是，兩
The Smoker, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Zurich, Nicolas 人與時任美術館亞洲藝術部主管的羅伯特•傑克布森
Mignard’s Venus and Adonis, and many other works by 博士關係要好，緊密合作為館藏增添了八百多件中國
canonical artists. In particular, working closely with Dr. 藝術品、家具及建築藝術品，使其成為美國規模最大
Robert Jacobsen, Mia’s Chair of Asian Art at the time, the 且最重要的中國藝術品收藏機構之一。
Daytons added more than 800 examples of Chinese art,
furniture, and architecture, transforming the Mia into one 布魯斯•代頓 1918年生於明尼蘇達州的明尼亞波利
of the largest and most important displays of Chinese art 斯市，在五兄弟中排行第二，父母是尼爾森與格蕾
in America. 絲•代頓，祖父喬治•德雷珀•代頓在1902年創立百
貨公司 The Dayton Company。布魯斯在1940年從耶魯
Bruce Dayton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in
1918 to Nelson and Grace Dayton, the second of five 大學畢業，二戰期間服役於美國陸軍。戰後，他在家
sons. Bruce’s grandfather, George Draper Dayton, 族的百貨公司從事襯衣銷售，並於1946年28歲時升任
had founded the Dayton Company, a Minneapolis 公司財務主管。五兄弟繼承祖父和父親的遺產後，在
department store, in 1902. Bruce Dayton graduated from 短時間內把只有明尼亞波利斯市中心一間店舖的祖
Yale University in 1940, and served in the Army during 業，拓展成全國連鎖的 Target 百貨公司。五兄弟團結
World War II. Immediately after the war, Mr. Dayton sold 一致，從不各自爭功，而且懂得互相取長補短。布魯
shirts in the family’s department store, and became 斯擁有出色的金融和商業才華，歷任公司行政總裁及
the company’s Treasurer in 1946 at the age of 28. Upon 董事會主席。不過他在2008年的回憶錄中寫道，財務
their grandfather’s and father’s death, the five brothers 主管才是他一直沒有離開過的崗位，正是這個崗位，
inherited the family business, and over a short period of 使他在家族事業發展成美國大型零售商的過程中扮演
time transformed their single-store business in downtown 了關鍵的角色。

“We always have the museum audience in mind and seek to build collections that
will speak to it of the wonders of China.”
–Ruth and Bruce Dayton, Appreciating China
「我們總是心繫美術館的觀眾，建立收藏時，總念著要向大家展示令人讚歎的中國文
化之美。」
——司路德與布魯斯•代頓，《Appreciating China》

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