| Ludington, Wright S. | ||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Artist | |||||||||||||||
| dates | 1900-1992 | |||||||||||||||
| city | Santa Barbara | |||||||||||||||
| state | CA | |||||||||||||||
| other cities | New York, NY; Ardmore, PA; | |||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:24 | |||||||||||||||
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