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Artists' estates : reputations in trust / edited by Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Decedents' estates.
- United States.
- Decedents' estates--United States.
- Executors and administrators--United States.
- Executors and administrators.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Artists' Estates offers a fascinating journey into the complex and competitive art world through the distinctive lens of those who deal with the paintings, prints, and sculpture that artists leave behind after their deaths. This unique collection of interviews conducted by Magda Salvesen, the widow of the second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Jon Schueler, provides a window into the goals and desires, the conflicts and frustrations, and the emotional and financial strains that confront widows, companions, sons, and daughters as the heirs to artists' estates. The judiciously arranged and edited interviews also address the benefits and liabilities of foundations and trusts through the insights of lawyers, gallery dealers, and foundation directors.
- Readers will explore well-known estates, including those of Mark Rothko, David Smith, and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as the equally intriguing legacies of lesser-known artists whose work came to the fore in the forties and fifties.
- Together, the passionate testimonies of families and lovers, the measured voices of art professionals, and the more than eighty photographs offer an indispensable entree into the private and public worlds of art.
- Contents:
- 1 Formidable Antecedents 3
- B. H. Friedman on Lee Krasner and Annalee Newman 5
- 2 The Widow Is the Memory 15
- Widow of Fairfield Porter / Anne E. Porter 17
- Widow of N. H. (Tony) Stubbing / Yvonne Hagen 27
- Widow of Esteban Vicente / Harriet Vicente 39
- Widow of Richard Diebenkorn / Phyllis Diebenkorn 50
- 3 The Uncertain Divide: Artist/Wife/Widow 59
- Widow of Elmer Bischoff / Adelie Landis Bischoff 61
- Widow of James Brooks / Charlotte Park 69
- Widow of Herman Cherry / Regina Cherry 81
- Widow of Rudolf Baranik / May Stevens 93
- 4 Unfinished Dialogues: The Artist and the Gallery 105
- Widow of Fritz Bultman / Jeanne Bultman 107
- Stephen L. Schlesinger on the Fritz Bultman Estate 118
- Widow of Ernest Briggs, with Bob Brooks / Anne Arnold 122
- Anita Shapolsky on Her Foundation and Gallery 131
- Jeffrey Bergen on the Romare Bearden Estate 138
- 5 The Next Generation 147
- Daughter of Milton and Sally Avery / March Avery 149
- Son of Ethel Schwabacher / Christopher Schwabacher 161
- Daughter of George McNeil / Helen McNeil 172
- 6 Foundation Samplings: SoHo and Southampton 189
- Sanford Hirsch on the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation 191
- Michael Solomon on the Ossorio Foundation 204
- 7 Untimely Deaths 219
- Peter Stevens on the David Smith Estate 221
- Daughter of David Park / Helen Park Bigelow 238
- Widow of Gregory Gillespie / Peggy Gillespie 249
- 8 A Certain Distance 263
- Widow of John Ferren / Rae Ferren 265
- Son of Ralston Crawford / John Crawford 274
- Companion of Leon Polk Smith / Robert Jamieson 284
- Joan Marter on the Dorothy Dehner Foundation 294
- 9 To the Future 303
- Daughter and Son of Mark Rothko / Kate Rothko, Christopher Rothko 305
- Stephen Polcari on the Archives of American Art 322
- Ralph Lerner on Art Law 329
- Jack Cowart on the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 336.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813536049
- OCLC:
- 56591083
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