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Fig. 2. Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, 1851
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. No. 97.34)
At the Metropolitan Museum, Mr. Kennedy served as a Trustee for more other guests were J. Pierpont Morgan, Jacob H. Schiff, Cleveland
than twenty years, a member of its Executive Committee for over nine Dodge, Joseph Choate, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Henry De
years, and as one of the Vice Presidents for four years. During his tenure Forest and Eugene Delano.
at the Museum, he was particularly interested in its educational mission.
His first gift to The Museum was Washington Crossing the Delaware Sources:
(1851) (acc. no. 97.34) by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868), which Kennedy https://www.jstor.org/stable/3253083
gave in 1897 after consulting with Samuel P. Avery (1822-1904). (Fig. 2) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3253024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Kennedy
The funds he left to the Museum have enabled significant acquisitions https://eh.net/book_reviews/john-stewart-kennedy-the-man-who-
in Asian art, Old Masters paintings, furniture and decorative arts. found-the-money/
His impressive funeral service in November 1909, that took place https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v015/
at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, was packed with the p0069-p0084.pdf
leading trustees and managers of the numerous institutions that he https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1909/12/1/john-
was connected to including the Presbyterian Hospital (he was the s-kennedy
President), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/948
Library, Columbia University, The Charity Organization Society, the https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-a041-a3d9-e040-
St. Andrew’s Society and the Bank of Manhattan Company. Amongst e00a18064a99
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