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Roberta Brooke Astor (née Russell; March 30, 1902 – August 13, 2007) was an American philanthropist, socialite, and writer. She served as the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, established by her third husband, Vincent Astor, who was a member of the Astor family. Brooke Astor was the author of two novels and two volumes of personal ...
James Whitney Fosburgh was an American painter and lecturer on art at the Frick Museum, perhaps most famous for his portrait of US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which is featured in full color on the cover of the 5th November 1965 edition of Life magazine, to accompany the memorial essay on the President entitled...
Study of a Dog Facing Left, 1820–73, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British), Graphite Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh, 1978 (1979.135.12) Bronze statuette of a hound gnawing a bone , 3rd–2nd century b.c. ; Hellenistic, Greek, Bronze Fletcher Fund, 1936 (36.11.12)
Mary Sprinson in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1979–1980. New York, 1980, pp. 44–45, ill., calls it "René Grenier" and dates it 1887. Charles S. Moffett. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1985, pp. 11, 232–33, ill.
Mary Benedict Fosburgh formerly Cushing aka Astor. Born 27 Jan 1906 [location unknown] Ancestors. Daughter of Harvey Williams Cushing and Katherine Stone (Crowell) Cushing. Sister of Betsey (Cushing) Whitney and Barbara (Cushing) Paley. Wife of William Vincent Astor — married 1940 (to 1953) [location unknown]
Fosburgh and his wife, Mary ("Minnie") Cushing, were prominent art collectors in New York City. James Whitney Fosburgh was born in New York on August 1, 1910. He was the son of James Boies Alleyne Fosburgh (1879–1926) and Leila Whitney (d. 1913). [1]
