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LACMA’S COLLECTORS COMMITTEE MAKES SEVEN ACQUISTIONS
$2.8 million raised toward works by Albrecht Dürer, Shirin Neshat, Robert Rauschenberg, and more
LACMA announces the acquisition of seven artworks through the museum’s annual Collectors Committee gala fundraiser on Saturday, April 21, including Robert Rauschenberg’s 1970 large-scale screenprint Currents, German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Saint Jerome in His Study, a Louis Sullivan—designed elevator surround from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, and more.
Chaired by LACMA trustee Ann Colgin, Collectors Committee Weekend is one of the museum’s biggest fundraising events each year. All told, the seventy-nine members of the 2012 Collectors Committee raised $2.8 million for art acquisitions.
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