Coleccionista

Linda Marcus

1937 en Dallas, Texas, Estados Unidos

Datos generales

Residencia:

Reside en Dallas, Texas, Estados Unidos

Etiquetas:

Arte latinoamericano

Descripción del Profesional del arte

En marzo de 2019, el Dallas Museum of Art anunció la creación del Fondo Stanley y Linda Marcus para la Adquisición de Arte Latinoamericano. Establecido gracias a la extraordinaria donación de un millón de dólares de Linda Marcus, en su nombre y el de su difunto esposo, Stanley, el nuevo fondo estriba en la increíble historia de apoyo al museo de los Marcus, así como su interés en particular por las artes de Las Américas. Como miembro del patronato del Dallas Museum of Art durante más de 60 años, Stanley Marcus también influyó de manera importante en la colección del museo, donando más de 300 obras de arte en todos los soportes y en múltiples áreas de curaduría. Fomentó la pasión por el arte latinoamericano, tanto el prehispánico tradicional como el moderno, donde destacan adquisiciones del museo tan notorias como la magnífica pintura mural El hombre de Rufino Tamayo y ... la Colección Nora y John Wise de Arte Sudamericano Ancestral. Esto lo llevó a sentar las bases de la actual riqueza del museo en estos ámbitos. Linda Marcus, antiguo miembro del patronato del DMA, sigue coleccionando arte latinoamericano y ha prometido la donación de su colección al museo. ---------------------------------------------------- Linda Marcus (Dallas, 1937), a native born Texan, earned Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Methodist University. Her academic research has centered on the cultural and archaeological record of lowland Maya in Yucatan and Central America. Linda has previously served on the boards of the Dallas Symphony Association, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, American Film Institute in Dallas, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum board, the Council for the Arts at MIT, and the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. Harold Stanley Marcus (April 20, 1905 – January 22, 2002) was president (1950–1972) and later chairman of the board (1972–1976) of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907. Marcus was an avid art collector, as well as amassing a collection of masks from around the world. In 2002, the Sotheby's auction house mounted a sale of works from his estate, calling Marcus "an insightful and forward-looking collector and a generous lender whose contributions to exhibitions helped bring notice to the world of Latin American Art during the 40s, 50s and 60s. The auction house also noted that Marcus had begun collecting at age five (influenced by his parents), but had found his interest in good design vastly deepened by a 1925 graduation trip to Europe, where he visited a famed international exhibition of decorative arts and thus was introduced to the earliest works of Art Deco. The Marcus collections included significant works by Mexican artists Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Rivera's lesser-known friend and colleague Antonio Ruíz; the American sculptor Alexander Calder, and American painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Marcus was friends with Rivera and Tamayo – playing a major role in bringing one of Tamayo's murals to the Dallas Museum of Art – and one of the first board members of the O'Keeffe museum, which honored him at the time of his death with a paid notice in The New York Times that stated "Stanley's generous support, leadership, enthusiasm, friendship and keen artistic judgment were instrumental in the Museum's inception and success. We shall miss him greatly." Another Marcus contribution to the arts was his own work in the area of photography. Over the course of his adult life, Marcus took thousands of photographs, both of famous and anonymous subjects, which he turned over to granddaughter Allison V. Smith, a professional photographer, upon moving out of his Nonesuch Road home into a smaller residence in the late 1990s. Two years after his death, Smith began making digital scans of the photos and posting them to the sharing site Flickr; despite the fact that their authorship was not identified, within a year the photographs had drawn 10,000 views. For the 100th anniversary of Neiman Marcus, Smith and her mother, Jerrie Marcus Smith, decided to assemble a representative selection of the nearly 5,000 images into a book; titled Reflection of a Man, the 192-page book was published by Cairn Press in October, 2007, and accompanied by an exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. Southern Methodist University hosts a Stanley Marcus collection at its DeGolyer Library in Dallas, including photographs, correspondence, and clippings. The library also houses a collection of more than 8,000 books donated by Marcus, including 1,100 miniature books, many from the press he founded.