Chester Dale

Place: New York

Born: 1883

Death: 1962

Biography:

Chester Dale was an American banker and art collector. Dale earned large sums from working for the New York Stock Exchange, which then allowed him to become a major collector of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings. Major works from his collection were donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1941, as well as via bequest in 1963. Dale was also president of the National Gallery of Art from 1955 to 1962.