Cone sisters

Cone sisters
Etta Cone
circa 1889
Claribel Cone
circa 1891
BornClaribel – (1864-11-14)November 14, 1864,
Etta – (1870-11-30)November 30, 1870
DiedClaribel – September 20, 1929(1929-09-20) (aged 64),
Etta – August 31, 1949(1949-08-31) (aged 78)
Resting placeDruid Ridge Cemetery[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationWestern Female High School
Women's Medical College (Claribel)
Occupation(s)Art collectors
Physician/researcher (Claribel)
Parent(s)Herman (Kahn) Cone
Helen (Guggenheimer) Cone

Claribel Cone (1864–1929) and Etta Cone (1870–1949), collectively known as the Cone sisters, were active as American art collectors and socialites during the first part of the 20th century. Claribel trained as a physician and Etta as a pianist. Their social circle included Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. They gathered one of the best known private collections of modern art in the United States at their Baltimore apartments, and the collection now makes up a wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their collection was estimated to be worth almost a billion US dollars in 2002.

  1. ^ The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt, by Ellen B. Hirschland, Nancy Hirschland Ramage, Northwestern University Press, Jul 3, 2008