Jean Outland Chrysler

Jean Esther Outland Chrysler
Born
Jean Esther Outland

(1921-09-15)September 15, 1921
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
DiedJanuary 26, 1982(1982-01-26) (aged 60)
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
EducationCollege of William and Mary
Spouse
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(m. 1945)​

Jean Esther Outland Chrysler (1921–1982) was an art collector. She is known for donating art to the Muscarelle Museum of Art and the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences which would later become the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Outland was born on September 15, 1921, in Norfolk, Virginia. She attended the College of William and Mary.[1] In 1945, she married Walter P. Chrysler Jr., who had been stationed with the United States Naval Reserve in Norfolk in the 1940s.[2] Walter P. Chrysler Jr. was the son of the automotive executive Walter Chrysler.[1]

The couple settled into an eighteenth-century house in Fauquier County, Virginia. They both were interested in the Visual arts and collected paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts. Chrysler donated a selection of modern paintings to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary. Beginning in 1967, the couple loaned parts of their collection to the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. Ownership was transferred, along with Walter P. Chrysler Jr.'s collection from the Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown.[2] The Norfolk Museum was renamed the Chrysler Museum of Art.[3]

Chrysler died on January 26, 1982, in Norfolk, Virginia, at the age of 60.[4]

The Jean Outland Chrysler Library was established at the Chrysler Museum of Art. It relocated to the campus of Old Dominion University in 2014.[5] In 2018, the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Jenkins' name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of Honor.[6]

  1. ^ a b Mars, Ashley Grove (29 July 2021). "Bringing the Chrysler Collection Home: Jean Outland Chrysler's Devotion to Norfolk |". Chrysler Museum of Art. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Jean Esther Outland Chrysler (15 September 1921-26 January 1982) Biography". Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  3. ^ Forgey, Benjamin (26 February 1989). "THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM, SUDDENLY SPLENDID". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  4. ^ "JEAN OUTLAND CHRYSLER". The New York Times. 28 January 1982. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Jean Outland Chrysler Library Will Move To New Art Building on Campus (Thursday, August 23, 2012) InsideODU - News for Faculty and Staff at Old Dominion University". Inside ODU. 2 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Wall of Honor". Virginia Women's Monument Commission. Retrieved 16 August 2023.