February 3, 2025

Artful Living: Carl and Marilyn Gross

As I drove along the I-10 West from Santa Fe to Los Angeles in August 2000, I wondered what the future might hold. I had just been hired as the curator of visual arts at the Autry, then a young museum with a small but impressive collection of historic Western American art. While eager to work with examples by some of the best-known artists of the frontier era, I was also uncertain. How to build a collection that transcended the West as a historical moment? How might the Autry, from its origins as a Western heritage museum, become a destination for art within a city already brimming with world... Read more