Lizzie Plummer Bliss, known as Lillie P. Bliss, was an American art collector and patron. At the beginning of the 20th century, she was one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. One of
Lillie P. Bliss
Paul Cézanne: The Bather, 1885–1887, Museum of Modern Art, formerly collection Lillie P. Bliss. Oil on canvas, 97 × 127 cm (38.19 × 50.00 in)
Arthur B. Davies: Italian Hill Town, ca. 1925, donation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oil on canvas, 65.7 × 101.3 cm
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Brouillard à Guernsey, 1883, today Cincinnati Art Museum. Oil on canvas, 54 × 65 cm
Cornelius Newton Bliss was an American merchant, politician and art collector, who served as Secretary of the Interior in the administration of President William McKinley and as Treasurer of the Repub
Lillie P. Bliss
…Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. Lizzie Plummer Bliss was born in 1864 in Boston, Massachusetts, as a daughter of textile merchant Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833–1911) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Bliss, born Plummer (1836–1923). Since childhood, her family and friends called her Lillie P. Bliss. Of her…
Claude Monet's The Manneporte near Étretat, owned by Bliss