Intersection of Art, Architecture, Industry and Parks in Western North Carolina from 19th Century to Present Day
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Cone born to parents Herman (Kahn) Cone and Helen Guggenheimer in Jonesboro, Tenn. His parents were of Jewish-German descent.
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George Washington Vanderbilt II born to William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam in Staten Island, NY
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Claribel Cone born in Jonesboro, Tenn.
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Matisse born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France
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Etta Cone born in Jonesboro, Tenn.
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Vanderbilt commissioned the construction of the Biltmore Estate by Architects Richard Morris (house) and Frederick Law Olmsted (gardens)
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To stabilize the production market of checks and plaids, Cone & Trust formed an Export&Commission Co. As marketers of Southern cloth mill-goods to South America they were in competition with Great Britain for the market (eventually capturing another 40 mills in an attempt to control market.)
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The Cone Family moved to Baltimore, Md. where Herman Kahn opened a grocery store. Claribel Cone meets Gertrude Stein in medical school, and her brother Leo Stein. The Cone sisters would live on Eutaw Street for the next 50 years (when not traveling in Europe and Asia.) Etta Cone manages family affairs, but does not pursue a college degree. Moses Cone and his brother become traveling salesmen prior to starting their textile company.
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The defunct steel mill converted to cotton mill will produce blue and brown denim. Cone became the biggest producer of denim fabric in the world. By 1900, he is supplying denim to Levi Strauss and Co, an relationship the Greensboro firm continues to this day as the International Textile Group.
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The mansion cost $25,000 and took two years to build.
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The largest donation ever received at time would lead to the eventual development of Appalachian State University
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Vanderbilt and wife Edith Stuyvesant Dresser's daughter Cornelia is born at Biltmore Estate
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Biltmore Industries is created to teach young people to make hand-made furniture, baskets, and homespun fabrics.
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Stein introduces the Cones to Picasso and Matisse. The Cone sisters buy paintings of Picasso from Leo Stein for as little as $3 a piece.
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In 1906, he meets Pablo Picasso for the first time at the salon of Gertrude Stein on Rue e Fleurus in Paris. The artists would become lifetime friends and rivals.
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Cone dies at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He is buried on the grounds of the Flat Top Manor in Blowing Rock, NC.
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His wife sells approximately 86,000 of Biltmore Property to US Forest Service at $5 an acre.
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Claribel Cone is buried at family mausoleum in Baltimore, Md.
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The Cone sisters collection grew to include Matisse's Large Reclining Nude, Paul Cezanne's Mont Saints-Victoire, as well as works by Van Gogh and Cezanne.
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When the Nazis occupy Paris from 1940-44, Matisse escapes to southern France, but in order to keep working must pledge Aryan status.
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The estate closed during war, and artwork from National Gallery of Art transferred there.
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Bertha Cone bequeathed Flat Top Mansion to the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, NC, and a few years later the estate was donated to the National Park Service and named Moses H. Cone Memorial Park.
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Etta Cone is buried alongside sister in family mausoleum in Baltimore, Md. The Cone collection is donated to the Baltimore Museum of Art and consists of 3,000 works valued at over $1 billion.Etta Cone donated a portion of collection to the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC including 67 Matisse prints and six Matisse bronze statues.
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The artist is buried in Nice, France. His designs for the Chapelle due Rosaire de Vence including windows and doors using the cut-out method is installed in 1949. The largest Matisse cutout exhibition is held at the Tate Museum in London in 2014.
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Today the privately-owned Biltmore trust is one of the largest employers in Asheville, NC.