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Frances Lasker Brody (1916–2009) was an American arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens.
Nov 18, 2009 · Frances Lasker Brody, a philanthropist, arts advocate and collector who influenced the development of Los Angeles’ cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art...
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Nov 30, 2009 · Frances Brody was the prime mover behind the 1966 Henri Matisse retrospective held at UCLA's modest Wight Art Gallery. A decade earlier, she and her husband asked Matisse to design a ceramic mural for an enclosed patio of their A. Quincy Jones-designed home.
May 9, 2022 · In 1952, Frances Lasker Brody, an heiress to the fortune of advertising genius Albert Lasker, commissioned a massive ceramic-tile wall mural from Henri Matisse to fill the inner courtyard of her and her husband’s modernist mansion in Holmby Hills (arguably architect A. Quincey Jones’ masterpiece).
Nov 24, 2009 · BRODY--Frances Lasker, died at home on November 12 at the age of 93. She lived in Los Angeles, California, and had been in ill health for several years. She was born in Chicago,...
Mar 9, 2010 · March 9, 2010. After a four-month battle between the auction giants Sotheby’s and Christie’s, the art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s...
Feb 6, 2011 · Frances Lasker Brody ranked No. 7 on The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 50 list of the most-generous donors of 2010.
