Support for Cataloguing, Photographing, and Digitizing Artworks from Marisol‘s Bequest to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

FAIN: GA-275971-20

Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY 14222-1096)
Cathleen Chaffee (Project Director: May 2020 to present)

The retention of eleven staff to work on the cataloguing, photography, and digitization of an estate bequest by the late artist Marisol (Maria Sol Escobar, 1930–2016) for the permanent collection and development of a traveling exhibition.

Upon the death of the groundbreaking artist Marisol, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery was humbled to be the recipient of her estate which includes more than 100 sculptures and three-dimensional studies, hundreds of works on paper, thousands of photographs and slides, as well as the artist’s archive, library, studies, and tools. The process of cataloguing, photographing, and digitizing this incredible collection was halted and compromised by the global pandemic. Support from the NEH would enable us to move forward with making this important contribution to the humanities available to the general public.