The Ruth S. Schaffner Collection
Description
Ruth S. Schaffner (1914-1996) was a photojournalist and filmmaker, collector and patron, and art dealer whose galleries in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles introduced many vanguard contemporary artists to southern California, including Robert Therrien, John McCracken, and Larry Bell. Due to Schaffner’s generous gifts of more than one-hundred works of art, the AD&A Museum makes available to its visitors a significant holding of contemporary art with a strong nucleus in works from the mid-1960s and 1970s when Minimalism, Pop, and Conceptual artists effected a rupture in traditional forms. The Schaffner Collection includes works from Judy Chicago, Larry Rivers, Joan Mitchell, and Joseph Beuys. Ruth Schaffner’s gifts exemplify the legacy of support the AD&A Museum has received from the Santa Barbara arts establishment and stand as an example of the community’s vibrant contribution in enriching and enlivening our teaching museum.
Collection Items
MCCOLLUM, Allan
Base Period
ALEXANDER, Peter
Untitled
GILHOOLY, David
Exotic Pig #3: Red River Hog
MASSON, André
Portrait of Curt Valentin
RISSER, James
Murder Mystery
SAMERJAN, Stephen B.
The Artist Charged by a Wounded Drawing
BETTENCOURT, Frank
Cracker Jacks Box Design
GANZER, Jim
Coffee Rings
Artist Unknown
China
CORTRIGHT, Steven
Done With Mirrors, 1978
McCAFFERTY, Jay
[Untitled]
CADORET, Michel
Passoir Double
BRIGHT, Robin
Hector Vex XXXIV
COLE, Max
Floating Field VI
GARABEDIAN, Charles
Brick Through the Window from You are Going on a Trip
KAUFFMAN, Robert Craig
Untitled
McCAFFERTY, Jay
[Untitled]
MCCRACKEN, John
Untitled
MITCHELL, Joan
Close
MOMPO, Manuel H.
Gente Hablando en la Calle
RISSER, James
Henry
SMITH, Richard
Untitled
SPAULDING, Selden
Small Circle
SUMAN, Alvaro A.
Princess Pissing
ERENBERG, Sam
Study for Tablit
SALAS, Richard M.
Red Man, Yellow Sky
HEINO, Steve
Interior Elevation/Study with Beams #2
MURRILL, Gwynn
New York
PARSONS, Betty
Shadow of Greece
ROTHROCK, Jim
Flatware Place Setting