Art For Vero Beach’s Sake

Jim began purchasing modern American art in the Sixties, following in his parents’ footsteps. “My father and mother had an apartment in New York City and they began collecting in the Forties. I would go there with them and they would introduce me to some of the people they knew in the art world,” Jim recalls. “I was very young when I started working with the Kennedy Galleries. The first piece I bought was Sugaring Off by Eastman Johnson. The second one was Judge McCall by Charles Wilson Peale.”

Roberta, who developed much of her interest in art from her husband, is equally passionate about the pieces they have purchased as well as those they have either sold or donated to museums, including the Vero Beach Museum of Art, which received Colors on a Grid by Ellsworth Kelly and Archetype by Heloise Crista.

Read the entire article in September/October 2012 issue