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historical notes
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Julian Ganz met his wife Jo Ann when they attended Stanford in the early 1950s. The Ganzes owned McMahan Furniture & Appliances, which specialized in furniture and blue jeans. Jo Ann became a docent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1960, and she and her husband began to collect nineteenth-century American art in 1964. They were very active collectors, who sold as much as they retained. Their collection was the subject of a major exhibit, “An American Perspective: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz Jr,” at the National Gallery of Art in 1982. While have given art to Yale University Art Gallery and earmarked a few pieces for the National Gallery, the bulk of their collection is willed to LACMA. |
