Mitchell Wolfson

Micky Wolfson Jr. was born in Miami, Florida on September 30, 1939 and was educated at the Lawrenceville School, Princeton University and the John Hopkins School for Advanced International Affairs in Washington, D.C. and Bologna, Italy. Throughout his professional life in America and Italy, he has been an avid accumulator of predominantly American, European and Japanese decorative and propaganda arts from the 1885 to 1945 period. A preservationist rather than a collector in the traditional sense, his museum, The Wolfsonian, founded in 1986, pursues a local educational goal, and encourages international scholarly research in the artistic, social, political and technological fields of the period and stages acclaimed exhibitions, which mirror their interaction. The museum and its holdings of over 100,000 items of decorative and fine arts, posters, graphics, archival material, illustrated books and original documents, was donated in 1997 to Florida International University, thereby ensuring the collection’s future as an indispensable source and invaluable national asset for present and future scholarship.