Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, article from August '18 Vanity Fair

August 2018 issue of Vanity Fair shares a detailed article by Paul Goldberger, "George Lucas Strikes Back: Inside the Fight to Build the Lucas Museum."

Artist rendering of the proposed museum (image via MAD architects)
Here's a link for the article: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/george-lucas-museum-los-angeles

The article link includes a slide show of 20 works from the Lucas collection.

Works in the slide show include Norman Rockwell's "Saying Grace"... which was reported by CNN to have sold at auction in 2013 for a record $43 million dollars. https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/us/rockwell-saying-grace-auction/index.html
Also Wyeth's The Storybook:
And the Leyendecker "Republicans vs Democrats"
Lucas is pictured below in the Skywalker Ranch library, with his wife Mellody Hobson. Photo by Stefan Ruiz.

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