JPMorgan Chase - Art Collection

Art Collection

See also: J. P. Morgan#Collector of art, books, and gemstones

The collection was begun in 1959 by David Rockefeller, and comprises over 30,000 objects of which over 6,000 are photographic based, as of 2012 containing more than one hundred works by Middle Eastern and North African artists. One Chase Manhattan Plaza building was the original location at the start of collection by the Chase Manhattan Bank, the current collection containing both this and also those works that the First National Bank of Chicago had acquired prior to assimilation into the J.P.Morgan Chase organisation. The person known as L.K.Erf has been the director of acquisitions of works since 2004 for the bank, whose art program staff is completed by an additional three full-time members and one registrar. The advisory committee at the time of the Rockefeller initiation included A.J. Barr, and D. Miller, and also J.J.Sweeney, R.Hale, P.Rathbone and G.Bunshaft.