Andy Warhol, Two Marilyns, 1962
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 29 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.
Promised gift of Jane and Marc Nathanson in honor of the museum’s 50th anniversary
© 2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA, by Josh White
Jane and Marc Nathanson give major artworks to LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced eight promised gifts of art from Jane and Marc Nathanson. The Nathansons’ gift of eight works of contemporary art includes seminal pieces by Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol]]>
January 30, 2015, source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The bequest is made in honor of LACMA’s 50 th anniversary in 2015. The gifts kick off a campaign, chaired by LACMA trustees Jane Nathanson and Lynda Resnick, to encourage additional promised gifts of art for the museum’s anniversary. Gifts resulting from this campaign will be exhibited at LACMA April 26 – September 7, 2015 , in an exhibition, “50 for 50: Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA’s 50th Anniversary”.
“What do you give a museum for its birthday? Art. As we reach the milestone of our 50th anniversary, it is truly inspiring to see generous patrons thinking about the future generations of visitors who will enjoy these great works of art for years and decades to come,” said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director. “Jane and Marc Nathanson have kicked off our anniversary year in grand fashion.”
Jane and Marc Nathanson promised an extraordinary grouping of eight works created over four decades by some of the most important artists of the last half century, including Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Julian Schnabel, George Segal, Frank Stella, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol. Selections of the gift include Andy Warhol’s “Two Marilyns”, from 1962, created around the time Warhol began using the silkscreen process, a method that would soon become his signature. Along with Campbell’s “Soup Can” (1964) and “Black and White Disaster” (1962), two works already in LACMA’s collection, this triumvirate will allow the museum to present a full view of Warhol’s central concerns during the 1960s. James Rosenquist’s “Portrait of the Scull Family” (1962) illustrates the artist’s seemingly irrational juxtapositions in Surrealism combined with directed references to manufactured goods and mass media, all rendered in the artist’s signature dispassionate and seemingly anonymous sign-painter’s technique. Also included in the Nathansons’ gift is George Segal’s “Laundromat” (1966–67), Gilbert & George’s “Falling” (1972), Frank Stella’s “La Columba Lady” (1984), Julian Schnabel’s “Fox Farm Painting X” (1989), Roy Lichtenstein’s “Interior with Three Hanging Lamps” (1991), and Damien Hirst’s “Death Will Have His Day” (2006).
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