Walter Arensberg

Walter Arensberg was a poet, who with his wife Louise, collected art and supported artistic endeavors.

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Between 1913 and 1950 the couple collected the works of Modern artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Charles Sheeler, Walter Pach, Beatrice Wood, and Elmer Ernest Southard, as well as Pre-Columbian art. They donated their collection the Philadelphia Museum of Art including correspondence, ephemera, clippings, writings, personal and art collection records, and photographs documenting the couple's art collecting activities as well as their friendship with many important artists, writers and scholars.

Related Topics:
Marcel Duchamp - Charles Sheeler - Walter Pach - Beatrice Wood - Elmer Ernest Southard - Pre-Columbian - Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Intrigued with writer Francis Bacon, particularly the aspects of alchemy, cryptography, Rosicrucianism, and, inevitably, the Shakespeare-Bacon debate, the Arensburgs researched his work. In 1937 they established the Francis Bacon Foundation in Los Angeles intending to promote "research in history, philosophy, science, literature, and art, with special reference to the life and works of Francis Bacon."

Related Topics:
Francis Bacon - Alchemy - Cryptography - Rosicrucianism - Shakespeare-Bacon - Francis Bacon Foundation - Los Angeles

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