Grace Rainey Rogers | |
Birth Name: | Grace Rainey |
Birth Date: | June 28, 1867 |
Birth Place: | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Death Date: | May 9, 1943 |
Death Place: | Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
Burial Place: | Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Occupation: | Art collector, arts philanthropist |
Spouse: | Henry Welsh Rogers (1907–1918; divorced)[1] |
Grace Rainey Rogers (June 28, 1867 – May 9, 1943) was an American art patron, art collector, and arts philanthropist.[2] She had donated significant amounts of money to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art; and as a result she is the namesake of many buildings in the United States.[3] [4] [5] Rogers was the daughter of industrialist businessman, William J. Rainey (1836–1900), and Eleanor B. (née Mitchell) Rainey (1842–1905).