Frances Lasker Brody
Frances Lasker Brody (1916–2009) was an American arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens.
Frances Lasker Brody | |
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| Born | Frances Lasker May 27, 1916 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | November 12, 2009 (aged 93) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Art collector, philanthropist |
| Spouse |
Sidney F. Brody
(m. 1942; died 1983) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Flora Warner Lasker Albert Lasker |
| Family | Mary Lasker (stepmother) Doris Kenyon (stepmother) Edward Lasker (brother) |
Mrs. Brody, who died on November 12, 2009, at 93, was the wife of Sidney F. Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994. The Brodys lived in a modernist house in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that was designed by the architect A. Quincy Jones and the decorator William Haines to show off the couple’s collection.
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