High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sarah Tyson Hallowell (1846–1924) was an important American art curator in the years between the Civil War and World War I. She curated a number of major exhibitions in Chicago, arranged the loan exhibition of French Art at the World`s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, worked with Bertha Palmer (1849–1918) to organize the murals for the women`s pavilion for the fair and then moved to Paris where she served as agent for the Art Institute of Chicago and assisted wealthy Americans in their pursuit of French art. Her circle of friends included Auguste Rodin (1840–1917),Mary Cassatt (1824–1926), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and the famous Swedish painter Anders Zorn (1860–1920). During World War I she and her niece Harriet Hallowell (1873–1943) performed heroic humanitarian work, treating the wounded in her home, at a small hospital and visiting prison camps behind German lines to insure Allied prisoners were treated properly. She lived in France until her death in 1924.