Annie Swan Coburn
Annie Swan Coburn was an American art collector and patron. She collected American art and French Impressionist paintings. Upon her death she left artworks to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and Smith College. The Art Institute received more than one hundred works of art.
Life
Swan was born in Fremont, Illinois in 1856. In 1880 she married Lewis Larned Coburn.Lewis Larned Coburn died in 1910 and at that time Annie Swan Coburn began collecting art. She exhibited her collection in her apartment in the Blackstone Hotel, filling up much of the available space, including storing Vincent van Gogh's Sunny Midi, Arles under her bed. She died at her home at the Blackstone on May 31, 1932, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery.