| 词条 | Sarah Campbell Blaffer |
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| name = Sarah Campbell Blaffer | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Sarah Campbell | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|08|27}} | birth_place = Waxahachie, Texas | death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|05|13|1885|08|27}} | death_place = Houston, Texas | citizenship = United States | education = Boston Conservatory | organization = Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | known_for = Philanthropy | spouse = Robert Lee Blaffer | children = Four | mother = Sarah (Turnbull) Campbell | father = William Thomas Campbell | relatives = | family = }} Sarah Campbell Blaffer (née Campbell; 8 August 1885 {{endash}} 13 May 1975) was a philanthropist and a contributor to the art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She inherited two fortunes based on oil money, one from her father’s investments in Texaco, and the other from her husband’s investments in Humble Oil. Early lifeSarah Campbell Blaffer was born on 27 August 1885 to William Thomas and Sarah (Turnbull) Campbell in Waxahachie, Texas. William Thomas Campbell co-founded the Texas Company. She attended school at a convent in Lampasas, Texas before matriculating at the Boston Conservatory.[1] PhilanthropyIn 1964, Blaffer created the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Its mission of sending works of art on tour to make them more accessible to people who live in smaller communities. The foundation assembled collections of Goya etchings and Hogarth engravings, and also amassed a collection of Italian Renaissance paintings and a collection of early modern paintings from the Netherlands.[2] Blaffer is the namesake of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston. The gallery is housed by the Fine Arts Building at the university and was founded in 1973. Some of its early activities consisted of loaning works of arts for travelling expositions within Texas. More recently the gallery assembled a small permanent collection with a focus on Latin-American works.[3] In 2000, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) established permanent display space for part of the Blaffer Foundation Collection. These are housed in five different galleries of MFAH’s Beck Building.[4] Personal lifeIn 1909, Sarah wedded Robert Lee Blaffer, one of the co-founders of Humble Oil. The couple had four children.[1] DeathBlaffer died in Houston on 13 May 1975.[1] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|series=Handbook of Texas Online|first=Nancy S. |last=Hixon |title=BLAFFER, SARAH CAMPBELL| access-date= 31 October 2018|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbl51|date=14 September 2016|publisher=Texas State Historical Association}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blaffer, Sarah Campbell}}2. ^{{cite web|series=Handbook of Texas Online|title=SARAH CAMPBELL BLAFFER FOUNDATION|access-date= 31 October 2018|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vrs02|date=20 November 2017|publisher=Texas State Historical Association}} 3. ^{{cite web|series=Handbook of Texas Online|first=Kendall|last=Curlee|title=SARAH CAMPBELL BLAFFER GALLERY|access-date=31 October 2018|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/klsge|date=25 February 2017|publisher=Texas State Historical Association}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.mfah.org/art/departments/Sarah-Campbell-Blaffer-Foundation|title=Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation|access-date=31 October 2018 |publisher=The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston}} 5 : 1885 births|1975 deaths|Boston Conservatory alumni|Philanthropists|20th-century philanthropists |
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