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Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a non-profit arts foundation located on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Modern and contemporary artwork in the Frederick R. Weisman collection are displayed in a "living with art—house museum" context, with guided public tours by appointment with the foundation.〔http://www.weismanfoundation.org/tours.html . accessed 12.22.2010〕
==History==
Frederick Rand Weisman was the third of five sons born in Minneapolis to Russian immigrants who settled in Minnesota in the 1890s. His father, William, established enterprises in a number of areas, including real estate and the fur industry. Like his father, Frederick Weisman would become a businessman.
Weisman and his wife Marcia Simon, sister of art collector Norton Simon, began collecting art in the late 1940s, starting with the works of American and European postwar artists including Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacometti, and Mark Rothko. From 1960 to 1964, Marcia Weisman hosted monthly proselytizing classes for novice collectors, taught by Irving Blum and Walter Hopps, whose Ferus Gallery in West Hollywood was the first to show Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, and Roy Lichtenstein in Los Angeles.〔Bob Colacello (April 1995), (The Art of the Deal ) ''Vanity Fair''.〕 By the mid-1960s, their collection had become well known. David Hockney portrayed them in a double portrait called ''California Collectors'', now in the Art Institute of Chicago, that has become one of his most famous works.〔Edward J. Sozanski (June 24, 1987), (Frederick Weisman Just Can`t Get Art Off His Mind ) ''Chicago Tribune''.〕 The Weismans were divorced in 1979 and split the collection.〔Robert Reinhold (August 16, 1993), (Art Collector, Old and Sick, Is Using Time That's Left to Aid the Homeless ) ''New York Times''.〕 While Marcia Simon Weisman donated some of her half to the newly formed Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,〔Roberta Smith (September 13, 1994), (Frederick Weisman, 82, Leader In the Business and Art Worlds ) ''New York Times''.〕 Frederick Weisman established the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in 1982. He said, “Art is a way of life. I live with art, work with art, and fly with art, but most of all I enjoy sharing it.” It is true that he was a passionate collector. But greater than the pleasure of collecting the works of art he loved was his joy in sharing them. He said, “When you are as fortunate as I have been, you have a responsibility to share with others.” Until 1983, Weisman was considering buying a permanent exhibition space in New York for housing or exhibiting the collection.〔(Coast Collector Weighs New York Art-Site Deal ) ''New York Times'', October 28, 1983.〕 In 1986, Weisman dejectedly withdrew from plans on moving his collection to the Greystone Mansion, after two years of negotiations.〔Suzanne Muchnic (November 14, 1986), (Weisman Seeking Another Home For His Art Cache ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 Weisman also spoke of constructing a sculpture garden for the Barnsdall Art Park. Like Norton Simon, he later engaged in negotiations with UCLA to be the eventual keeper of his collection and offered to pay the cost of building a museum.〔Deborah Solomon (December 20, 1987), (The Grand Quest: Frederick Weisman's Decade-Long Dream of Finding an L.A. Home for His Celebrated Modern Art Collection ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕
When Weisman eventually opened the art collection at his Los Angeles estate to the public, he wanted to share the experience of living with art – rather than the more formal protocol of seeing art in a gallery or museum. He thought that by encountering works of art in a domestic environment and seeing how they could be enjoyed on a day-to-day basis at the place where he himself lived from 1982 through 1992,〔Suzanne Muchnic (July 28, 1993), (Weisman: Hometown Boy Makes Very Good : L.A.'s Patron Saint of Art Considers His Philanthropy as He Travels Home to See New Museum ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 people might leave with a fresh view of Modern and contemporary art.〔''Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection'', 2007〕〔http://www.weismanfoundation.org/museum_info.html . accessed 12.22.2010〕 In 1986, Henry T. Hopkins, then director of the San Francisco Museum of Art, became director of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art which he led until 1991.〔(Art Foundation Names Hopkins as Its Director ) ''New York Times'', May 13, 1986.〕 In 1994, Weisman died, leaving the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation under the direction of his second wife and former Getty Museum conservator Billie Milam.
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