Rest in peace, Dorothy Braude Edinburg. Well miss you. I pass along the sad news received from Steve Gaskin that distinguished Boston-area collector Dorothy Braude Edinburg passed away this morning. She was well-known for her collection of modern art, of prints and drawings, and of Chinese and Korean ceramics. She promised her vast collection to The Art Institute of Chicago. I copy below the text of Carol Vogels The New York Times Inside Art column from 12 July 2013 (online version appeared on 11 July 2013) in which she announced the gift to The Art Institute of Chicago. The link below is to the Carol Vogels full Inside Art column for that day; the columns lead topic concerned contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer; hence, the seemingly incongruous headline and image below. That portion of Carol Vogels article announcing Dorothy Braude Edinburgs promised gift to The Art Institute of Chicago: A CHICAGO GIFT In the inner circles of the art world, the Boston collector Dorothy Braude Edinburg is a well-known personality. For decades now, she has been a regular at auctions and gallery shows in the United States and abroad. To officials at the Art Institute of Chicago, Ms. Edinburg is also a fairy godmother. Since the early 1990s, she has watched over the Art Institute’s collections of European drawings and prints, which date from the old masters through roughly 1945. She has also paid attention to its holdings of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, often adding to her own holdings, knowing that they would end up at the museum, where her collection has been on long-term loan. But the big bonanza was only announced this week. The museum will receive nearly 1,000 works including about 800 works on paper, along with 150 ceramic objects from China and Korea, as well as Japanese illustrated books. Ms. Edinburg is especially well known for her works on paper, and the gift includes 613 prints and 190 drawings by artists including Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Monet and Léger. It is one of the most significant in the museum’s history and is being named the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, after Ms. Edinburg’s parents. In 1991, Ms. Edinburg wrote to Douglas Druick, who was then a curator and is now the director of the Art Institute, introducing herself. “It was so disarming, it seemed too good to be true,” he recalled. After they met, she developed a relationship with Mr. Druick and other curators. “Her taste is very much in keeping with the taste of Chicago,” Mr. Druick said. “In many cases, this gift builds on our strengths, and in some areas it fills important gaps she knew were missing.”
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:13:18 +0000
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