Los Angeles County Museum of Art is receiving its first paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Édouard Manet, along with works by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alfred Sisley. The Pearlman Foundation is distributing its important collection among LACMA, New York's Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Museums will share ownership of the artwork when pieces are not on display. Daniel Edelman of the foundation emphasized their role as caretakers of the collection for the public, rather than owners. Rising costs made loaning the artwork more challenging over the years.
"We inherited a responsibility, not a collection," said Daniel Edelman, president of the foundation and grandson of Henry and Rose Pearlman, who amassed the works starting in the mid-1940s. "This doesn't belong to us, it belongs to the public - we're caretakers of it."
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