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George W. Davison (1872-1953) was the greatest benefactor of the DAC Collection.
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George W. Davison, no. 2, 1923, drypoint by Muirhead Bone
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George Davison graduated from Wesleyan in 1892 and married Middletown native Harriet R. Baldwin in 1895. He became a banker in New York, and began collecting prints in about 1907. Beginning in the 1930s he gradually gave his collection of some 6,000 prints to Wesleyan.
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In 1952, the year before the couple died, they supported the establishment of the Davison Art Center in an addition to the historic Alsop House.
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The Davisons at the dedication of the DAC
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The Davisons also donated a superb collection of rare books to Wesleyan and funded the creation of the Davison Rare Book Room at Olin Library.
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