Maidenform to Modernism

Enid and Joseph Bissett were among the most important donors to the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, giving 24 artworks during the 1950s and 60s. 

Their impressive gift, which includes works by Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Raoul Dufy, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Horace Pippin, Georges Rouault, Alfred Sisley, and Max Weber, is displayed with archival material and correspondence.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Young Girl Seated, 1936, Oil on canvas. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Gift of Joseph and Enid Bissett, 1959.120