PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM - Key Persons
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- Public Programs and Learning Manager
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- Membership and Campaigns Manager
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- Member of the Executive Officers Team
- President
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- Member of the Executive Officers Team
- Chairman Emerita
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- Construction Site of the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1974
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- Executive Director
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Museum director Frederick Sleight (left) and Walter Marks (right) review the model of the new Palm Springs Desert Museum
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- Member of the Executive Officers Team
- Treasurer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Helen Lundeberg was raised in Southern California and decided to pursue a career as an artist after taking a course at the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena taught by artist Lorser Feitelson, whom she later married.
Lundeberg was a founder-along with Feitelson-of Subjective Classicism, also known as Post-Surrealism. In 1934, the two wrote a manifesto distinguishing their movement from European Surrealism with its focus on the unconscious mind. Post-Surrealism, on the other hand, intended to guide viewers through imagery towards deeper meaning.
In the 1950s, Lundeberg began to explore geometric abstraction, creating works that hover between abstraction and figuration, using restricted colors and palettes. In the 1960s and 1970s, her work focused on landscapes, interiors, still lifes, and planetary forms, and her last body of work, created in the 1980s, featured landscapes and architectural elements.
Helen Lundeberg donated Grey Interior III to the museum in 1984, in appreciation for the museum show that helped support the career of this under-recognized woman artist.
Kaptur donated most of his archive to the museum in 2015, providing a rich and invaluable resource for curators and researchers. He received a Palm Springs Walk of Stars in 2014 which is placed adjacent to the Palm Springs Art Museum's Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion.
A retrospective exhibition of Hugh Kaptur's 60-plus-year career entitled Hugh Kaptur: Organic Desert Architecture was presented at the museum in 2019.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Executive Officers Team
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Chief Advancement Officer
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- Director of Advancement Operations & Visitor Experienc
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- Executive Vice Chair
- Member of the Executive Officers Team
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Visitor Experience Supervisor
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Director of Communications, Marketing and Graphic Design
- Marketing and Communications
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- Member of the Executive Officers Team