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News July 15, 2010 Widener is displaying art from Deshong collection Mari A. Schaefer Philadelphia Inquirer An art exhibition from the Alfred O. Deshong collection at the Widener University Art Gallery will be on display for the next year, starting this week. Deshong, a wealthy Chester businessman, made his fortune operating the family's stone quarries in Delaware County. He amassed an art collection - more than 300 pieces - that contained Japanese carved ivory figures, Chinese carved hard-stone vessels, and 19th-century American and European paintings. He died in 1913, and his will gave the 22-acre property, his art, and money to Chester so it could open a museum to share the artwork with the public. In 1984, the county dissolved the trust and transferred the art collection to Widener. The gallery, open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, is in University Center, 14th Street between Walnut Street and Melrose Avenue, Chester. Admission is free. For more information, call 610-499-1189.

News
July 15, 2010

Widener is displaying art from Deshong collection
Mari A. Schaefer
Philadelphia Inquirer

An art exhibition from the Alfred O. Deshong collection at the Widener University Art Gallery will be on display for the next year, starting this week.

Deshong, a wealthy Chester businessman, made his fortune operating the family's stone quarries in Delaware County. He amassed an art collection - more than 300 pieces - that contained Japanese carved ivory figures, Chinese carved hard-stone vessels, and 19th-century American and European paintings.

He died in 1913, and his will gave the 22-acre property, his art, and money to Chester so it could open a museum to share the artwork with the public. In 1984, the county dissolved the trust and transferred the art collection to Widener.

The gallery, open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, is in University Center, 14th Street between Walnut Street and Melrose Avenue, Chester. Admission is free. For more information, call 610-499-1189.