Kelton Foundation Collection
The Kelton Foundation, also known as the Richard Kelton Foundation, in Santa Monica, California, was founded in 1983 as a private charitable organization by real estate developer Richard Kelton, who died in 2019. Its main activities comprise "ethnographic, scientific and artistic investigations of humankind and the sea", and it holds a vast collection of artworks, known as the Kelton Foundation Collection, or Kelton Collection. Kelton was particularly interested in maritime art of the Pacific region, China Trade art, ethnographic materials, and Aboriginal Australian art, and travelled and collected works until around 2007. He mounted his first exhibition in 1980 at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, believed to be the first Aboriginal Australian art exhibition in the United States. The foundation mounts exhibitions, lends its objects and art to other institutions, and provides assistance to scholars undertaking related research. The Kelton Collection has held works by contempora ...
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Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry. It has a diverse economy, hosting headquarters of companies such as Hulu, Universal Music Group, Lionsgate Films, and The Recording Academy. Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John Percival Jones, John P. Jones and Robert Symington Baker, Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which incorporated as a city in 1886. The city developed into a seaside resort during the late 19th and early 20th cen ...
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