Background
The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States she was born in Washington, District of Columbia
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Melva Bucksbaum
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Education
And attended the University of Maryland.
Career
He built shopping centers and started real estate investment trusts in Iowa and there she became the President of the Des Moines Art Center board. Martin Bucksbaum died In 1996 and in memoriam the family endowed a chair at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, The Martin Bucksbaum Professorship in Urban Planning and Design. Bucksbaum began serving on the Whitney Museum of American Art"s board of trustees in 1996 and eventually became its Vice Chairwoman.
Together Bucksbaum and Learsy lived admist their collection of over four hundred contemporary, impressionist, modernist and post-impressionist works, including pieces by.
Vanessa Beecroft, Gregory Crewdson, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Salle, Richard Serra, Terry Winters, Henri Mattisse and Su-en Wong. They also owned works by Peter Paul Rubens, In 2004–2005 Francesco Clemente painted a portrait of the couple.
In 2000 she and her family inaugurated the Melva Bucksbaum Prize with an award of $100,000 to an individual contemporary artist and an exhibition of the artist"s work at the Whitney. Bucksbaum died at her home in Aspen, Colorado from bladder cancer on August 16, 2015 at the age of 82.
Achievements
Membership
Manager Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation, since 1995. Director Robert I. Goldman Foundation, since 1996. Board member American Friends of Israel Museum, New York, The Jewish Museum, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, Save Venice, New York & Venice.
Visiting committee Graduate School Design, Harvard University. Member of Whitney Museum American Art (trustee since 1996, vice chairman since 2004), Tate Gallery (International Committee).
Interests
Connections
Married Martin Bucksbaum (deceased). 1 child Mary; Married Raymond J. Learsy.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Named one of top 200 collectors (with Raymond Learsy), ARTnews Magazine, 2004-2008. Recipient Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Award for outstanding arts patronage & philanthropy, 2004.Named one of top 200 collectors (with Raymond Learsy), ARTnews Magazine, 2004-2008. Recipient Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Award for outstanding arts patronage & philanthropy, 2004.