George & Harriet Davison

George W. Davison (1872-1953) was the greatest benefactor of the DAC Collection.

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.

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.

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.