TIMKEN MUSUEM OF ART The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early 1900s from Vermont, accompanied by their elderly parents and preceded by a millionaire uncle, Henry Putnam. The two sisters never were married, spent decades obtaining Old Masters. Initial paintings were donated to San Diego’s Fine Arts Gallery. Later, the sisters’ acquisitions remained in their possession and were loaned to prestigious institutions around the country. Next, attorney Walter Ames appears on the scene in 1950, helping the Putnam sisters establish the nonprofit Putnam Foundation, and later securing the financial support of t....

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