Boston museum gets Ritts gallery
Los Angeles photographer Herb Ritts, known for his celebrity portraits and high fashion photo spreads, will have a photo gallery created in his name at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in honor of a $2.5-million gift from the Herb Ritts Foundation.
Along with the monetary donation, the foundation has given the museum 189 photographs by Ritts, who died in 2002. The photos will add to the 45 of his own works Ritts gave to the museum in 2000.
The Herb Ritts Gallery, expected to open in 2010 or 2011, will house the work of many photographers, not just Ritts, said Mark McKenna, director of the Hollywood-based foundation. And, McKenna added: “We are going to have a strong relationship with the museums here in L.A., that is a given, but this was a chance for an East Coast opportunity; we’re not excluding the West Coast.”
-- Diane Haithman
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