The de Saisset Museum is one of 183 college and university art museums across the United States to receive a gift through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s Photographic Legacy Program in honor of the foundation’s 20th anniversary. According to foundation President Joel Wachs, the aim of the Photographic Legacy Program is to provide greater access to Warhol’s artwork and process, and to enable a wide range of people from communities across the country to view and study this important, yet relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work: his photography. Through the Photographic Legacy Program 28,543 original photographs valued at more than $28 million will be distributed to institutions throughout the country.
“This generous gift of Warhol photographs from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts will greatly enhance our permanent collection holdings of modern and contemporary art. This will provide an opportunity for our students and faculty to study Warhol’s artwork and process,” said de Saisset Museum Director Rebecca M. Schapp.
The de Saisset Museum will receive approximately 150 original Polaroid photographs and gelatin silver prints selected by Jenny Moore, curator of the Photographic Legacy Program. “A wealth of information about Warhol’s process and his interactions with his sitters is revealed in these images,” said Moore. The Photographic Legacy Program offers an opportunity to bring a significant number of photographs into their permanent collections to institutions that do not have the means to acquire works by Warhol, while allowing those institutions that do have Warhol in their collections to enrich the breadth and depth of their holdings.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has given away more than $200 million in cash grants and art donations in its 20-year life span.
About the de Saisset Museum
The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University is the South Bay’s free museum of art and history. The museum is one of only two museums in the South Bay accredited by the American Association of Museums. The de Saisset Museum supports SCU’s goal of educating the whole person through diverse exhibitions, collections, and educational programs.
About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its 8,377 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master’s universities, California’s oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.