Werner H. Kramarsky

Collector, curator and educator, Werner (Wynn) Kramarsky is chairman of the board of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and also serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art In New York and the Hammer Museum at UCLA. In this conversation with Althea Viafora-Kress, he speaks of the formation of his sensibility and his concentration on postwar drawings of the reductive, abstract variety. Kramarsky says he dislikes the word patronage but he is certainly one of the world's most enthusiastic and generous collectors of drawings by contemporary artists. In the last six years, he has given the Museum of Modern Art nearly 200 separate pieces, 81 in 2004 alone. "You have a responsibility to challenge, to move the world along, to add insight to what beauty can be," he says.

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