Henry Williams Sage Portrait
- Title:
- Henry Williams Sage Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Johnson, Eastman (American painter, 1824-1906)
- Donor:
- Sage, Cornelia Cogswell in remembrance of Henry Manning Sage
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1865-1897
- Location:
- Uris Library, Willard Fiske Room
formerly in the Lower Lobby of Uris Library (1966), Cornell University - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0307
- Accession Number:
- W84-53.3
- File Name:
- artsdb_0307.jpg
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Sage, Henry W. (Henry Williams), 1814-1897
Cornell University. Board of Trustees - Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- First elected chairman of the board of trustees, 1875-1897. Henry Williams Sage (1814-1897) was one of Cornell University most generous benefactors. Like Ezra Cornell, and John McGraw, Sage lacked formal college education. As a young man he aspired to attend Yale College. In Ithaca, Sage briefly studied medicine, but could not complete his studies due to poor health[Builders of Cornell: a record of Cornell University's foremost benefactors. 1988. S.l: s.n.]. He became a clerk at his uncle store, Williams & Brothers, and later bought the business. He went on to partner with John McGraw and together they developed a successful lumber mill where both men earned their wealth. A friend of Ezra Cornell, Sage was appointed a Cornell Trustee in 1870, and elected President of the Board of Trustees in 1875 [Death of Henry W. Sage. (1897, Sept 19). New York Times (1857-1922), pp. 13-13. http://search.proquest.com/docview/95492484?accountid=14214]. All together, the Sage family’s gifts to Cornell totaled $1,777,179 (~$108 million dollars in 2003). The Sage family’s donations to Cornell include Sage Hall (original housing for Cornell’s college for women), Sage Chapel, the University Library building (now Uris Library) and endowment, the Cornell Infirmary building and endowment, and the University’s first fully funded endowed professorship—the Susan E. Linn Sage Professor of Ethics and Philosophy. Henry W. Sage also provided firm guidance over the University’s Land Grant Investments as Board president through one of the University’s most distressing financial periods [Michael L. Whalen. “Gifts and Giving.” Cornell University 2003-04 Financial Plan (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Division of Planning & Budgets, May 2003), http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000037.pdf].
- Source:
- Columbia University, and Bartleby.com, Inc. “Johnson, Eastman," 2000. Columbia encyclopedia. New York: Columbia University Press. http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Macy, Laura Williams. “Johnson, Eastman,”2002. In Grove Art Online. [Basingstoke, England]: Macmillan. http://www.groveart.com
Rodgers, David. "Johnson, Eastman." The Oxford Companion to Western Art online, edited by Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK%5FSEARCH.html?book=t118
Death of Henry W. Sage. (1897, Sept 19). New York Times (1857-1922), pp. 13-13. http://search.proquest.com/docview/95492484?accountid=14214
Michael L. Whalen. “Gifts and Giving.” Cornell University 2003-04 Financial Plan (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Division of Planning & Budgets, May 2003), http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000037.pdf
Builders of Cornell: a record of Cornell University's foremost benefactors. 1988. S.l: s.n. - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.