The Barry Berkus Family Collection
Description
The Barry Berkus Family Collection contributes to the strength of the Museum's holdings of twentieth century works on paper. Made in 2006, the Berkus gift provided the museum with twenty-one works on paper by artists working primarily in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, including: Robert Motherwell, William Wegman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Carrie Mae Weems. Berkus, an architect who worked in Southern California, designed the UC Santa Barbara’s Mosher Alumni Building.