What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die?

(nytimes.com)

17 points | by prismatic 2 days ago ago

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  • treetalker 3 hours ago ago

    Dalí's home and studio are open for public tours in Cadaqués (Catalunya), Spain. Worth a visit. The museum in Figueres is … okay. If you're a fan, go instead to the Dalí museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. It's amazing and has many of his large-format masterworks, including Hallucinogenic Toreador.

    • neverkn0wsb357 an hour ago ago

      I’ve been there highly recommend; check out the gardens he has what I can only describe as psychedelic elephant statues in the gardens that are pretty wild.

      You’re walking down a path, and out of the corner of your eye within view down a row in the foliage, kind of visible will be a surreal looking elephant-thing will appear tall as can be.

      Really really cool.

    • brookst 2 hours ago ago

      There’s also a decent Dali museum / gallery in Paris!

  • ggm 2 days ago ago

    Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) had part of his studio recreated in the modern art Gallery in Edinburgh.

    * https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/paolozzi-studio

    Margaret Olley (1923-2011) had part of her studio recreated in the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah.

    * https://gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au/visit/margaret-olley-art-ce...

    Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) has most of her studio converted to a museum but with works in progress in plaster and stone workshops left as-is in situ at the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Ives, Cornwall.

    * https://wearecornwall.com/listings/barbara-hepworth-museum-a...

    From memory they share one thing: They're pretty messy. Margaret Olley's is maybe the worst, she kept still life tableaux for decades, painted them many times. It's nice to see the work reflected on the wall and see the still life as-is.

  • Blackthorn 3 hours ago ago

    Far away from NYC we (on the internet) got to watch this happen in near real time after Grant Imahara's tragic death. I can't quite put the feeling into words.

  • leakycap 2 days ago ago

    Georgia O’Keeffe's Home & Studio exists in many ways as she left it and takes public visitors in Abiquiú, New Mexico

    https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

  • defrost 2 days ago ago

    Clifton Pugh's Dunmoochin (original) is part of national heritage now, and still used as an artists retreat as part of the Dunmoochin Foundation in outer Melbourne.

      Dunmoochin is historically significant as the home and studio of the internationally famous artist, Clifton Pugh, three times Archibald Prize winner and founder of the Dunmoochin Artist's Community. The property exemplifies the values and robust way of life of the artistic community that settled in this area in the 1950s. 
    
    * https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/55217

    * https://dunmoochin.org/

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Pugh

    Albert Namatjira's "studio" was the entirety of the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia .. that's still there much as he saw it last, albeit more encroached by white ants.

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Namatjira#/media/File:W...

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Namatjira

  • fuzzfactor 2 days ago ago

    Most of them are probably destined to be part of a comprehensive collection -- of dust :\