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Ludington, Wright S. print view role Collector Artist dates 1900-1992 city Santa Barbara state CA other cities New York, NY; Ardmore, PA; sex M historical notes Wright Saltus Ludington was an artist, art collector, and one of the founding members of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Ludington's art collection included antiquities, paintings, drawings, engravings, and sculptures. He left 175 works of art to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The bequest included work by, among others, Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Henry Moore, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau, André Derain, and Georges Braque. During his lifetime, and in memory of his father, Charles Henry Ludington (1866-1927), he donated approximate 28 works of Asian (Japanese, Thai, and Chinese) art dated from the first millennium BC through the 17th century to the Santa Barbara Art Museum. His father was a collector of Pre-Columbian and Asian Art. He gave the museum two ancient marbles, the Landsdowne Hermes and Dionysus, which he purchased a few years after he completed his European "Grand Tour". His mother, Ethel Mildred Saltus Ludington (1871-1922), collected impressionist paintings and his aunt Katharine Ludington (1869-1953) was a portrait painter. decades of activity 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:32 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Santa Barbara Museum of Art Archives Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Wright S. Ludington Collection, 1900 – 1993 see details... The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library 10 East 71st Street Wright S. Ludington artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1920-2000. see details... University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Special Collections Warren Austin papers, 1939-1999. see details... Santa Barbara Museum of Art Archives Wright S. Ludington, interviewed by Demaris Lee, Santa Barbara, CA, December 1981. see details... see also: De Forest, Lockwood, 1850-1932 Ludington, Ethel Mildred Saltus, 1871-1922 «  back