Cone, Claribel (1864–1929)
Cone, Claribel (1864–1929)
American art collector. Born Nov 14, 1864, in Jonesboro, Tennessee; died Sept 20, 1929, in Lausanne, Switzerland; dau. of German immigrants; graduate of Woman's Medical College of Baltimore, 1890; advanced training at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore.
Served as a pathology teacher at the Woman's Medical College until the school closed in 1910 and her medical career drew to its end; with sister Etta, ran an informal salon that was open to artists, musicians, intellectuals, and professionals; became an art collector with sister, renting an apartment to serve as a private museum to house their collection, which came to include works of Renoir, Manet, Cézanne, Degas and Bonnard.
See also Mary Gabriel, The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone (Bancroft, 1999); and Women in World History.