Word: arensberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for a new museum was all too apparent. Not only was Los Angeles moving from third to second position in population, but the best art collected in the area was going elsewhere for lack of a proper home: in 1951 the Arensberg Collection of French impressionists had departed for Philadelphia, in 1957 the old Los Angeles County Museum lost out, by $500,000, when the Edward G. Robinson collection went to Stavros Niarchos for $3,000,000. More recently, Avery Brundage's Oriental treasures have gone to San Francisco...
...third part of the complex is an auditorium seating more than 600 for lectures, films, concerts and televised programs. In the past, several major collections (notably the Avery Brundage and the Arensberg collections) have been given to other museums in other cities because the donors felt that their paintings could not have a suitable display space in Los Angeles. Now such space is at hand, and already the Art Museum's board of trustees has voted a $5,000,000 fund-raising program for new acquisitions...
...French modern masters into the U.S. was a huge success. Davies helped build the impressionist collection of Lizzie P. Bliss; Glackens sold Albert C. Barnes on the virtues of the Armory's Cézannes; Kuhn got John Quinn to invest in modern art. Collectors Walter Arensberg and Stephen C. Clark both bought from the show. The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the first U.S. museum to buy a Cézanne; a San Francisco dealer snapped up Duchamp's Nude sight unseen. As a matter of fact, Duchamp and his brother, Jacques Villon, sold everything they...