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Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 [1]: 16 – December 10, 1990) was an American business manager and owner. He spent decades with Occidental Petroleum in the mid 20th century. [2] Called "Lenin's chosen capitalist" by the press, he was also known for his art collection and his close ties to the Soviet Union. [3] [4] [5]
The museum was founded by Armand Hammer, the late CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, as a venue to exhibit his extensive art collection, at the time valued at $250 million. [57] A Los Angeles County Museum of Art board member for nearly 20 years, Hammer withdrew from a non-binding agreement to transfer his paintings to LACMA after ...
When she died in 1955, the collection had grown to 74 paintings, drawings and sculptures by European and North American artists. [3] In 1955, Armand Hammer donated to the museum a collection of 48 works by Dutch, Flemish, German, and Italian masters of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. [ 4 ]
The UCLA Hammer Museum has been quietly collecting a trove of contemporary art since 2005. But while gallery space has expanded in the last two decades, none is dedicated to permanent display of ...
The collection — consisting entirely of works by L.A.-based artists — has been accumulated by the Mohns over the last two decades and is being called the Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA ...
The Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial announced its 2023 artist lineup. The exhibition will run Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.
Armand Hammer was a LACMA board member for nearly seventeen years, beginning in 1968, and during this time continued to announce the museum would inherit his whole collection. Hammer's collection included works from Van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Gustave Moreau, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne.
The collection that encompasses 260 artworks will be jointly owned and managed by the three … Former NPR CEO Jarl Mohn Makes Major Gift of Contemporary Los Angeles Art to Hammer Museum, LACMA ...