Laguna Art Museum Gets $100,000 Grant
Laguna Art Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation of New York to support “The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism,” a major exhibition slated to open in spring 1995.
The grant is one of the museum’s largest, and the exhibit will be the first major showing of San Francisco Abstract Expressionism in more than 20 years and the first to cover the entire movement, from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s, museum officials said.
The museum also announced the appointment of Susan Landauer as adjunct curator. As her primary responsibilities, Landauer, an authority on American art of this period, will curate the exhibit and write the catalogue. She is completing her doctoral degree at Yale University. “Her research will be the basis of the exhibition,” museum director Charles Desmarais said.
The Luce foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc.
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