ASPEN ART MUSEUM Summer Magazine 2021

ASPEN ART MUSEUM Warhol and Collecting

ANDY WARHOL: LIFETIMES

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“Jane always talks about the two most important artists of our lifetime as being Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.”

involved with the museum in Aspen, and how it came to be a bigger part of your lives. JN It was easy for the Aspen Art Museum to become a big part of our lives. For a small town, Aspen is very cultured, with a lot of people who love music and art, besides all the active opportunities that Aspen offers. So, it was natural for Marc and me to be involved. Many years ago, we started supporting the Artist in Residence program. This allowed new artists to come to Aspen and work in this special, spiritual, beautiful place, for a month. Then, when the museum’s new building was under construction in town, we got a little bit more involved.

REBECCA ANN SIEGEL I wanted to begin with your relation- ship to Aspen and ask how you came to start spending time there? JANE NATHANSON While going to the University of Denver, we would go up on the weekends. It was a totally different place at that time to how it is now—wide open spaces and just a few restaurants and hotels. But we loved Colorado and the mountains, and we always thought one day, if we were lucky enough to be able to afford a second home, that’s where we’d want it to be. RAS And did you put roots down in Aspen after you’d already moved to Los Angeles full-time?

MARC NATHANSON Yes. We’d been going there over Christmas with our kids for many years, and then we decided to buy a house. RAS At that time, I would say that Aspen’s art scene wasn’t thriving in the way it is today. JN It was not. But there were a few very good collectors who had homes there that were friends of ours. The Aspen Art Museum wasn’t necessarily a great mecca for art in those days, but a lot of the homes there had really wonderful collections. RAS Jane, your work on museum boards in LA is extensive, but tell me a little bit about how you became

And we’re so excited about this Andy Warhol show, because we’re such huge fans of Warhol. So, that was an obvious thing for us to support. RAS I imagine this exhibition will draw an audience from a far wider community—from Denver and other places, too—and afford many people the opportunity to see art that isn’t otherwise accessible locally. MN Well, Jane always talks about the two most important artists of our lifetime as being Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. So, I think people in Colorado, or even Utah or Wyoming, will make a special trip to Aspen to come see the show.

Overleaf Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Shockwig) (1986) in the home of Jane and Marc Nathanson,

Los Angeles, October 2021

All photos: © Ye Rin Mok; All works by Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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