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Edythe Broad
Edythe Broad (/broʊd/; born Edythe Lawson in 1936) is an American art collector and philanthropist. As an individual and with her husband Eli Broad (1933–2021), she has collected "about 2000 pieces of art valued at more than $2 billion" and supported arts initiatives such as the Los Angeles Opera and The Broad.
Born in Detroit to a homemaker and chemist, Edythe Lawson attended public school and particularly enjoyed school trips to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Early artworks of importance to her include John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark, and Picasso's Three Musicians.
When Lawson was a teenager, she met Eli Broad, who proposed to her after a few dates. They married in 1954. Her father gave her husband and her cousin the money to start his first company, and the couple became significantly wealthy through this and subsequent businesses. They had two sons, Jeffrey and Gary.
In 1963, Broad and her family moved to Los Angeles. Broad took walks in the evenings through the galleries on La Cienega Boulevard and began acquiring works by Southern California artists.
She met Taft Schreiber and through him encountered art dealers in New York. In 1972, Broad and her husband purchased a Van Gogh drawing entitled Cabanes a Saintes-Maries, 1888, for $95,000. Broad's husband Eli became increasingly involved in collecting and they increasingly concentrated their focus on postwar and contemporary art. They traded the Van Gogh in a deal to acquire a work by Robert Rauschenberg.
Broad was friends with various contemporary artists in the 1970s. Lichtenstein gifted her his Brushstroke Chair and Ottoman sculptures after she admired them in his studio, and Broad and Dorothy Lichtenstein did yoga together.
Today, Broad particularly appreciates the works of Jeff Koons. Several of his works are exhibited at The Broad.
Broad and her husband financially supported various collections and art museums. In 2008, The Broad Foundation gave $30 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on the condition that it not merge with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Broad and her husband separately supported that organisation, for which they endowed a $56 million building in 2003.
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Edythe Broad
Edythe Broad (/broʊd/; born Edythe Lawson in 1936) is an American art collector and philanthropist. As an individual and with her husband Eli Broad (1933–2021), she has collected "about 2000 pieces of art valued at more than $2 billion" and supported arts initiatives such as the Los Angeles Opera and The Broad.
Born in Detroit to a homemaker and chemist, Edythe Lawson attended public school and particularly enjoyed school trips to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Early artworks of importance to her include John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark, and Picasso's Three Musicians.
When Lawson was a teenager, she met Eli Broad, who proposed to her after a few dates. They married in 1954. Her father gave her husband and her cousin the money to start his first company, and the couple became significantly wealthy through this and subsequent businesses. They had two sons, Jeffrey and Gary.
In 1963, Broad and her family moved to Los Angeles. Broad took walks in the evenings through the galleries on La Cienega Boulevard and began acquiring works by Southern California artists.
She met Taft Schreiber and through him encountered art dealers in New York. In 1972, Broad and her husband purchased a Van Gogh drawing entitled Cabanes a Saintes-Maries, 1888, for $95,000. Broad's husband Eli became increasingly involved in collecting and they increasingly concentrated their focus on postwar and contemporary art. They traded the Van Gogh in a deal to acquire a work by Robert Rauschenberg.
Broad was friends with various contemporary artists in the 1970s. Lichtenstein gifted her his Brushstroke Chair and Ottoman sculptures after she admired them in his studio, and Broad and Dorothy Lichtenstein did yoga together.
Today, Broad particularly appreciates the works of Jeff Koons. Several of his works are exhibited at The Broad.
Broad and her husband financially supported various collections and art museums. In 2008, The Broad Foundation gave $30 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on the condition that it not merge with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Broad and her husband separately supported that organisation, for which they endowed a $56 million building in 2003.