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Collecting California: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection
Sunday November 8, 2009 - Sunday January 17, 2010
Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Dr
Laguna Beach, California 92651 Get Directions
Although one may imagine that the Laguna Art Museum collection began with the development of the Laguna Beach Art Association in 1918, the story is much more complex than that.

The collection officially began in 1940, fueled in part by the recognition that many of the artists that came to Laguna Beach at the turn of the twentieth century had passed away. One by one many wonderful works of art were donated either by these artists or their widows and heirs. By the 1970s, the Laguna Beach Art Association had become the Laguna Beach Museum of Art and started to generate significant one person and thematic exhibitions on important California artists and movements. As a result, collectors began to donate major pieces of their collections to the Museum.

A 1977 exhibition with a publication on William Wendt provided one of the first in-depth looks at a significant West Coast impressionist painter. This exhibition helped to validate the importance of the work to many local dealers and area collectors. Subsequently, local dealers and collectors began to explore the work of prominent twentieth century impressionist painters in Southern California, which led to the establishment of significant collections. In the 1980s and 90s, exhibitions and scholarship on California art at the Museum became more sophisticated and began to generate interest from collectors and dealers in the area.

That kernel of interest resulted in the development of some magnificent collections, and some of them have formed the most significant parts of Laguna Art Museum's Collection. As the Museum's mission became more focused on California art, collectors with a similar scope began to take interest.

Collecting California will focus on individual collectors and some of the important gifts they have made. Works of art given by Nancy Dustin Wall Moure (the art historian who has pioneered the history of California art and wrote the book California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media), Carl S. Dentzel (founder of the Southwest Museum), Mickey and Ruth Gribin (collectors, trustees, and patrons of contemporary Southern California art since the 1960s), Stuart and Judy Spence (trustees, theorists, benefactors of cutting edge Los Angeles art), are among some of the collectors on which Collecting California will focus.
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