Frederick R Weisman

A collection of 33 works by California artists worth about $1.5 million has been promised to the San Diego Museum of Art by Frederick R. Weisman, a prominent Los Angeles collector. Final agreements are expected to be signed in the next few days, according to Henry Hopkins, director of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. "While the agreement is not signed yet, it certainly looks very favorable. It appears as though it will happen," Hopkins said, adding that no money is attached to the gift.

Money makes the world go 'round, and we now realize that when the force isn't with us, things can come to a screeching halt. Artist Robert Dowd was well aware of the power and glory of money, and during the 1960s he was "making" it after his own fashion -- creating drawings and paintings that satirically reinterpreted the face of American currency.

Frederick R. Weisman, a self-made multimillionaire who amassed a fortune by distributing Toyota automobiles and spent much of that wealth on contemporary art and philanthropy, has died. He was 82. Weisman died Sunday evening at his Holmby Hills estate after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, the family announced Monday.

A $1.5-million gift from Los Angeles industrialist and art collector Frederick R. Weisman has thrust Pepperdine University's art gallery into the limelight. Upon receipt of the gift, which was announced Thursday, the year-old gallery in Malibu will be renamed the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. "It's very exciting. What could be better than having a museum in my hometown?" Weisman said.

Frederick R. Weisman, a self-made multimillionaire who amassed a fortune by distributing Toyota automobiles and spent much of that wealth on contemporary art and philanthropy, has died. He was 82. Weisman died Sunday evening at his Holmby Hills estate after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, the family announced Monday.

Here to personally announce his $1.5-million gift of 33 contemporary California artworks to the San Diego Museum of Art, Los Angeles art collector Frederick R. Weisman appeared reassured that his collection will have a proper home when it arrives here in March. "This wonderful museum is going to be the museum in the state of California where a spectator can come in and see California art in one place, one location," Weisman said. "Not a couple in this room and a couple on another floor."

Los Angeles art collector Frederick R. Weisman has pledged $3 million to the University of Minnesota in the hopes that his alma mater's art museum will finally get a home of its own to be designed by Santa Monica-based architect Frank Gehry. "I went to the University of Minnesota and I was born in Minneapolis, so there's a lot of strong ties there," Weisman said. "Minnesota means a great deal to me, and the city of Minneapolis is important to me."

Perhaps next year the presentation of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Awards won't be black-tie. Consider that three of the five artists who collected "Freddies" Thursday night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art refused to wear tuxedos as a matter of principle (the other two did not come). Composer John Cage, the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts winner, was in jeans.

A $1.5-million gift from Los Angeles industrialist and art collector Frederick R. Weisman has thrust Pepperdine University's art gallery into the limelight. Upon receipt of the gift, which was announced Thursday, the year-old gallery in Malibu will be renamed the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. "It's very exciting. What could be better than having a museum in my hometown?" Weisman said.

Fred Weisman was getting a lot of grief for someone being revered. Billy Al Bengston, the painter, told him he shouldn't have worn a tie ("I shouldn't?" said Weisman), and Carol Jeanne Feuerman, a sculptor who is making a life-size resin likeness of Weisman, wanted to make sure he didn't muss his pin-stripe suit. "That's the same suit I'm doing you in," she reminded the art collector and philanthropist. "OK," said Weisman. "I won't spill anything on it."

Perhaps next year the presentation of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Awards won't be black-tie. Consider that three of the five artists who collected "Freddies" Thursday night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art refused to wear tuxedos as a matter of principle (the other two did not come). Composer John Cage, the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts winner, was in jeans.

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation has announced plans to introduce an annual awards program for outstanding achievements in contemporary art. The inaugural awards will be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on May 23. Eleven awards totaling $240,000 will be given this year, according to Henry Hopkins, director of the Los Angeles-based foundation. In addition to cash, each recipient of a Frederick R.

If the San Diego Museum of Art's new Frederick R. Weisman Gallery for California Art contained only Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz's "Pedicord Apartments," that work alone would make the gallery an important art-viewing destination. As luck would have it, the Kienholz installation is one of more than 30 works in the gallery, most of them donated to the museum late last year by the Frederick R.

If the San Diego Museum of Art's new Frederick R. Weisman Gallery for California Art contained only Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz's "Pedicord Apartments," that alone would make the gallery an important art-viewing destination. As luck would have it, the Kienholz installation is one of more than 30 works in the gallery, most of them donated to the museum late last year by the Frederick R.

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation has announced plans to introduce an annual awards program for outstanding achievements in contemporary art. The inaugural awards will be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on May 23. Eleven awards totaling $240,000 will be given this year, according to Henry Hopkins, director of the Los Angeles-based foundation. In addition to cash, each recipient of a Frederick R.

Frederick R. Weisman, a millionaire Los Angeles art collector and bicoastal businessman, has taken up arms against Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., the Torrance-based subsidiary of Japan's largest auto maker, as it attempts to take over Weisman's billion-dollar auto distribution business. The battle was joined last month, when Toyota repeated its intention to buy Weisman's Mid-Atlantic Toyota Distributors Inc.

If Walter Annenberg were to donate his exceptional collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where they are on temporary display through Sunday, the gift would instantaneously transform the museum's holdings. Overnight, a respectable museum collection would become an internationally prominent repository for late European painting.

Here to personally announce his $1.5-million gift of 33 contemporary California artworks to the San Diego Museum of Art, Los Angeles art collector Frederick R. Weisman appeared reassured that his collection will have a proper home when it arrives here in March. "This wonderful museum is going to be the museum in the state of California where a spectator can come in and see California art in one place, one location," Weisman said. "Not a couple in this room and a couple on another floor."