Max Garb (1941 - 2012)

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Biography

Max was born in 1941. He was the son of Sam Garb and Ida Siegel. He passed away in 2012.

In 2013, part of his estate was put up for auction. "Material Culture is excited to bring a truly unique collection to auction in its sale “The Max Garb Collection of African and Ethnographic Arts,” on April 28, 2013. An outsider to the world of tribal art dealers, Max Garb made his living as an elevator operator in Chicago, but what he called his “magnificent obsession” with ethnographic arts spurred him to assemble an extraordinary collection. Started in the 1970s, Garb’s collection is the fruit of “half a lifetime,” by his own reckoning. At one point, it totaled approximately 700 artifacts, largely from Africa, but also from Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Bali, New Guinea, Guatemala and Mexico." --Material Culture website

Sources

• *"United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K1GV-NFJ : 26 February 2020), Max Garb, 2006.

• "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Z3H-PWRR : 19 February 2021), Max Garb, 1941.

• "United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:6X1P-V22H : Mon Jan 30 06:44:03 UTC 2023), Entry for Samuel Garb and Ida Garb, 6 April 1950.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM81-ZDV : 12 January 2021), Max Garb, 19 Feb 2012; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• https://materialculture.com/the-max-garb-collection-of-african-and-ethnographic-arts-april-28-2013/

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/13245055@N06/