Patricia Altschul

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Patricia Altschul (born April 16, 1941) is an American socialite, art collector, and actress on the reality television show Southern Charm.

Arthur G. Altschul, a former Goldman Sachs partner and renowned art collector and philanthropist, is widowed.

Mrs. John Brown, a retired teacher, was unable to function.

Altschul has served as a trustee or director of several non-profit organizations, including the New York Historical Society and Historic Hudson Valley (the Rockefeller Family properties).

The Police Athletic League of New York City awarded Altschul the Woman of the Year award in 2012.

Patricia On Southern Charm, she was named "the resident madcap grande dame" in 2013.

"Pat quickly became a fan favorite last year, and has even earned the respect of celebrities like Lady Gaga who said, 'looking at Patricia is like looking in a mirror," TV critic Christine Lo said in her blog.

Marriages and social life

L. Hayes Smith was married in 1962. Both of the couples lived in Falls Church and McLean, Virginia. Whitney Sudler-Smith, their son, film maker and television presenter, was born in 1968 in Washington, D.C. They were divorced in 1979.

In 1989, Patricia married Edward Stitt Fleming, a physician and entrepreneur. The couple divorced amicably in 1995. Dr. Fleming, a long-serving Washington psychiatrist who founded the Psychiatric Institute of Washington and the American Psychological Institutes of Medicine. He was president and chief executive of Psychiatric Institutes of America, a private sector of inpatient psychiatric services, which began in 1969 and then sold in 1983.

Arthur Goodhart Altschul, a general partner in the investment banking company of Goldman, Sachs & Company from 1959 to 1977, later as a limited partner. He was also one of the founders of General American Investors. Altschul was a respected art dealer, particularly of paintings by Neoimpressionist, Pointillist, Nabis, and Ashcan School artists. A major exhibition of art from the collection was held at the Yale University Art Gallery. Altschul was chairman of the board at Barnard College and a member of the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. The Overbrook Foundation had assets of more than $150 million. Arthur Altschul died in 2002.

Although Patricia was married to Altschul, the couple were inveterate party goers. After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a New York Times reporter published an article about whether people should attend parties like the forthcoming gala for New Yorkers For Children in the aftermath of 9/11.

She interviewed Patricia and wrote:

Altschul's fame (and contributions) enabled her to be elected to the Board of the New York Historical Society and the Rockefeller family's Hudson Hills Trust. In New York Magazine, poet Jay McInerney referred to her as one of New York's "Big Girls" – "the wives (and widows) who are the keepers of the benefit circuit." The Altschuls were frequently seen with Melania and Donald Trump's friends, Georgette Mosbacher, Deeda Blair, and Carolyn Roehm, former Henry Kravis and a fashion consultant in Manhattan.

Arthur and Patricia Altschul purchased the 15-room Long Island estate "Southerly" overlooking Oyster Bay from Ambassador Hushang & Maryam Ansary in 1997. Mario Buatta was hired to redecorate. Mrs. Altschul later told The New York Times, "the view is enchanting and magical: you can see the water from every room in the house."

Patricia decided to put "Southerly" up for auction after Arthur's death and return to the South. "While the allusions to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jazz Age parties are trite, it's impossible not to think of them when it comes to the 10,000-square-foot Long Island home, which is up for auction for $16 million."

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Early life and career

Patricia Altschul was born Patricia Madelyn Dey in Jacksonville, Florida in 1941 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Her parents were Francis Pearl Sudler Dey and Walter Pettus Dey, a medical doctor who graduated from the University of Alabama and received a medical degree from Tulane University in 1909. Patricia was educated at Marymount School, Olney Friends School, and George Washington University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1964 and then a master's degree in 1965, both in art history and archaeology. She started as an instructor and later became an assistant professor in art history at George Washington University. She lived for many years in Georgetown, where she later owned and ran Arcadia, a private art dealership that handled major paintings by such artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Martin Johnson Heade, Frederick Church, and Winslow Homer.

Altschul wrote and published the book The Art of Southern Charm in 2017.

In 2020, Altschul launched The Patricia Altschul Luxury Collection on the Home Shopping Network.

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