Maxim Karolik

Maxim Karolik
BornNovember 21, 1893
Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 20, 1963(1963-12-20) (aged 70)
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
OccupationSinger
Known forArt collecting
Spouse
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(m. 1928; died 1948)​

Maxim Karolik (November 21, 1893 – December 20, 1963), born in what is now Ukraine, he became a featured tenor for the Imperial Russian Grand Opera (later known as the Petrograd Grand Opera). He toured in Europe as a young man. He left Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and moved to the United States to continue study of music.

There he met and married Martha Catharine Codman, from one of Boston, Massachusetts's wealthiest families.[1][2] He became a noted collector of early American art, and the couple were influential in promoting eighteenth and nineteenth American art and antiques. In 1939 and 1947 they made valuable donations of their collections to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where a new wing was built and named for them.

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