…In Tribeca, Schoelkopf Gallery opened a show last week of work by social realist masters, such as Romare Bearden, Thomas Hart Benton, and Jacob Lawrence—all from the collection of two Hollywood legends. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, and her husband, the producer Frank Marshall, started to buy art when they needed to fill the walls of their Santa Monica house—they had a bit of cash on hand after producing the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies—and entrusted the adviser Barbara Guggenheim to help build their collection. Now it’s for sale, and many of the works already have new owners, according to the Schoelkopf site. “Kathleen and Frank are, like so often in the stories they tell, closing this chapter and opening the next,” Guggenheim said in an introduction to the catalog.
