“My goal when I set up the foundation was to create a collection that will not only honor (my husband’s) legacy, but that will be a gift to America,” DeMell Jacobsen said. It was almost immediately put back on public view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The DeMell Jacobsen Foundation saved the day, acquiring The Arch of Nero for $988,000. In cases where institutions deaccession and sell items from their collection, a common practice, the great danger is beloved masterpieces long enjoyed by museum goers vanishing from public view into the third homes of modern-day robber barons. Selling artwork and applying the money to operating expenses had always been strictly prohibited by AAM, but latitude was being given during COVID as museums were closed and revenues dried up. Newark was taking advantage of a COVID-era loosening of American Alliance of Museums rules requiring member institutions use any and all funds generated through the sale of artwork only for the acquisition of new items. This painting was the source of considerable controversy in 2021 when the Newark Museum of Art chose to deaccession the artwork and send it to auction. Such was the case with one of the Collection’s crown jewels: Thomas Cole’s The Arch of Nero from 1846. As soon as items are acquired, she and her staff are looking to place them in museums. DeMell Jacobsen doesn’t have a single item from the Collection in her home. Foundationįurther distinguishing the Collection, and the foundation DeMell Jacobsen set up to support it, is its public nature. Robert Henri (American, 1865 - 1929), Chow Choy, 1913 oil on canvas.
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