Scene and Heard: Ann Colgin

April 29, 2014

Scene and Heard: Ann Colgin

Photo Credit: Photo by Stefanie Keenan for Getty Images/ Artwork by Roni Horn

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LACMA Collectors Committee Chair Ann Colgin beside Roni Horn's Untitled ("The sensation of satisfaction at having outstared a baby.”) 2013 sculpture.
Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces, oculus shape

36 × 36 in. (91.44 × 91.44 cm)

Gift of the 2014 Collectors Committee, with additional funds provided by Steve Tisch

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Mitra Tabrizian, Tehran, 2006

Light Jet Type C print

42 1/8 × 121 1/4 × 2 in. (107.01 × 308 × 5.08 cm)

Gift of the Buddy Taub Foundation, Jill and Dennis A. Roach, Directors, through the 2014 Collectors Committee.

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Nancy Grossman, No Name

Mixed media assemblage

a-b) 15 × 7 × 10 in. (38.1 × 17.78 × 25.4 cm)

Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2014 Collectors Committee.

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Feng Mengbo, Long March: Restart, 2008

Video installation, with custom computer software, wireless game controller

Dimension and duration variable

Purchased with funds provided by Jane and Marc Nathanson, Ann Colgin and Joe Wender, Mary and David Solomon, Carolyn and John Diemer, and Bryan Lourd through the 2014 Collectors Committee.

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Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Odalisque, c. 1825-35

Oil on canvas

5 5/8 x 9 9/16 in. (14.3 x 24.3 cm)

Gift of the 2014 Collectors Committee.

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Pair of Lions, 9th century

Japan

Wood with pigment

Height: approx. 29 1/2 in. (75 cm) Promised gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2014 Collectors Committee.

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Scottish Musical Review, c.1896

Lithograph

97 x 39 in . (246 x 99 cm)

Gift of the 2014 Collectors Committee, with additional funds provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, J. Ben Bourgeois and Andrew Rhoda, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell and Will Ferrell, and Olivier and Zoe de Givenchy

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Antonio de Torres (Mexico, 1667–1731), Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), c. 1725

Oil on canvas

81 ½ x 55 ⅛ in.

Gift of Kelvin Davis through the 2014 Collectors Committee.

“It’s like harvest,” said Ann Colgin, describing the events surrounding the sixth annual Collectors Committee Gala that took place on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, and benefited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Colgin, who served as the fundraiser’s chair, can otherwise be found at Colgin Cellars in St. Helena’s Pritchard Hill where she and her husband are vintners, so if anyone should be making wine analogies, it’s Colgin. “Every year you don’t know what Mother Nature will throw at you,” she added, describing both the picking of grapes each autumn in the Napa Valley and the diverse array of art selected for acquisition by LACMA curators. “I always start the weekend with preconceived ideas about what I like,” said Colgin who studied fine art at New York University. “But,” she added, “My mind is always changed by the curators who explain what drew them to the work and its provenance.” This year, the museum raised $4.1 million towards the acquisition of ten artworks over the weekend that marked LACMA’s 29th annual Collectors Committee fundraiser. A print by Pablo Picasso and a poster by Charles Rennie Mackintosh joined the museum’s permanent collection as a result of the events masterminded by Colgin, and she said she can’t wait to see them installed. “I’ve been at the museum and watched people discover work that we bought over Collectors weekend. That’s what this really is all about.”

By Elizabeth Varnell

Pictured: LACMA Collectors Committee Chair Ann Colgin.
Photo by Stefanie Keenan for Getty Images

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