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Eleanor Axson Sayre (March 26, 1916 – May 12, 2001) was an American curator, art historian, and a specialist on the works of Goya. She was the first woman to serve as departmental curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Working as curator of prints and drawings, she collected Goya's etchings from museums around the world to catalogue and ...
Eleanor Axson Sayre (1916-2001) - Find a Grave Memorial. Advertisement. Photo added by Miranda Bozicevich. Eleanor Axson Sayre. Birth. 26 Mar 1916. Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA. Death. 12 May 2001 (aged 85)
May 17, 2001 · Eleanor Axson Sayre, an authority on the prints of Francisco Goya and one of the first female curators at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, died Saturday. She was 85 and lived in Cambridge, Mass.
The Life Summary of Eleanor Axson. When Eleanor Axson Sayre was born on 26 March 1916, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Francis Bowes Sayre, was 30 and her mother, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, was 28. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1955 and lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in ...
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May 16, 2001 · Eleanor Axson Sayre, 85, an authority on Spanish artist Francisco Goya and a curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, died Sunday at her home in Cambridge, Mass.
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Overview. Scholar of Spanish art and curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sayre was the daughter of Francis Bowes Sayre (1885-1972) a Harvard Law School professor, and Jessie W. Wilson (Sayre) the daughter of President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). She attended Buckingham Brown and Nichols School in Cambridge, MA, and the Winsor School in Boston.
