The Judith Rothschild Foundation will grant $300,000 this year to promote the work of 14 "under-recognized" American artists who died in the past 20 years.
The grant is the first for the foundation stipulated in the will of Rothschild, a painter who died in 1993.The annual grants are to support museum exhibitions, acquisitions for museums and public galleries, public programs, publications, conservation and studies.
This year's allotments include:
- $25,000 to the Goldie Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, for the first in-depth retrospective of the work of San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo.
- $10,000 to the Whitney Museum of American Art to acquire and restore DeFeo's major work, "The Rose."
- $25,000 to Tufts University Art Gallery for a retrospective exhibition of the work of Friedel Dzubas.
- $15,000 to Yale University Press to fund a book by Ann Gibson on under-recognized American artists.