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Tiburon's Gertrud Parker founded Museum of Craft & Folk Art


Tiburon s Gertrud Parker founded Museum of Craft & Folk Art
Gertrud Valerie Grossman Parker, an artist and art collector who founded the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, died Jan. 10 of natural causes at her Tiburon home. She was 96.
Born Dec. 27, 1924, in Vienna, Austria, Mrs. Parker was the only child of Otto Grossman and Helen Pick Grossman.
Her maternal grandfather, Karl Pick, was a member of Austria’s elected parliament and the founder of a labor union for office workers. He was instrumental in establishing modern labor laws as well as workers’ housing and hospitals, according to an essay about Mrs. Parker by art scholar Amy Winter. A building and street in Vienna is named for him, said Mrs. Parker’s son Jonathan. ....

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Art Industry News: Texas Cop Caught Inside Capitol Riot Says He Was Just There to Admire the 'Historical Art' + Other Stories


Art Industry News: Texas Cop Caught Inside Capitol Riot Says He Was Just There to Admire the ‘Historical Art’ + Other Stories
Plus, writer and curator Antwaun Sargent joins Gagosian as a director and a very adorable Manet painting of a dog goes to auction.
January 22, 2021
People look up at the ceiling of the newly restored rotunda inside the US Capitol, September 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, January 22. ....

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