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Marie Harriman ( née Norton, formerly Whitney; April 12, 1903 – September 26, 1970) was an American art collector and First Lady of New York from 1955 to 1958. She was the second wife of former New York Governor and diplomat Averell Harriman.
Sep 27, 1970 · WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—Mrs. Marie Norton Harriman, wife of W. Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York and a former Under Secretary of State, died today after a heart attack in George...
Jul 27, 1986 · W. Averell Harriman, the durable Democrat who was Governor of New York from 1955 to 1959 and served four Presidents in key diplomatic roles, died early yesterday at Birchgrove, his home in...
Marie Harriman Gallery was established on East 57th Street in New York in 1930, the same year that Marie Norton Whitney married W. Averell Harriman. The Harrimans had begun collecting art almost immediately after their marriage.
Averell Harriman was a renowned collector of pictures. The Picasso was acquired in 1929 and the Renoir the following year by Marie N. Harriman, Averell Harriman's second wife and the mother of the children who are suing Pamela Harriman. (English)
Marie Harriman, who operated an art gallery in New York between 1930 and 1942, died in 1970. On 27 September 1971 Averell married Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, the widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward and the mother, by a previous marriage, of Winston Churchill's grandson and namesake.
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In the photo accompanying the card, New York Governor Averell Harriman and First Lady Marie Harriman sit beneath a painting in front of a fireplace mantle with their three dogs--a yellow lab named Brum and two wire-haired dachshunds named Andine and Gary Cooper.
