Elizabeth Mongan, Fine-Art Historian, 92

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Elizabeth Mongan, an expert in fine-art prints and drawings who helped
to create a major collection at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, died on June 7, 2002, at her home in Rockport,
Massachusetts, at the age of 92.

From 1937 to 1963, Ms. Mongan was curator of the private print
collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, heir to the Sears, Roebuck fortune.
Over the years, she helped steer him toward color prints from late-19th-
and 20th-century France as well as 20th-century Germany. The collection
moved to the National Gallery in 1943, and she went with it as curator.

The Rosenwald Collection now has 22,000 historic and contemporary prints
and is considered one of the country's largest and finest collections of
historic art prints.

Ms. Mongan, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, also collaborated on
exhibitions, including "The First Century of Printmaking, 1400 to 1500,"
a 1941 show at the Art Institute of Chicago [Illinois]. She wrote
significant catalogs on Klee, Fragonard, Morisot, Daumier and Gauguin.