Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries
Title: Chinese Porcelains & Jade. Persian Pottery, Syrian & Greek-Roman Glass, Water Colors. Oils Paintings. Selections from the Collection of the Late A. Augustus Healy, Former President of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences
Description: New York. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries. 1939. First edition. Octavo. Softcover. Very good. 54 Pages, 350 lots. Illustrated in colour. Sale held on March 17th & 18th 1939. Following in the footsteps of his father Aaron Healy (1814-1896), Aaron Augustus Healy, was an art collector and leather merchant. Healy was a special partner in the firm A Olivotti & Co (dealers of Italian Antiquities), and President of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (25 years). During his lifetime, Healy gave 37 works of art to the Brooklyn Institute of Art and left them a choice of 20 paintings from his estate. Healy's collection included work by, among others, J H Twachtma, Rubens, William Maris, Troyon, Vollon, Josef Israiel, Eugene Delecroix, and Juliet Thompson. Healy was married twice, his first wife, Miss Elizabeth Bradley (d. 1912) of Washington D.C., in 1875, and in 1915 to Marry Theodosia Currier who died in 1940, St. Petersberg Florida, near her summer home, of an accidental drowning. He was a member of the Century, Rembrandt, Hamilton, City and National Arts Clubs.

Keywords: Chinese Porcelains & Jade. Persian Pottery, Syrian & Greek-Roman Glass, Water Colors. Oils Paintings. Selections from the Collection of the Late A. Augustus Healy, Former President of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences