Artists supporting artists

The Artists’ Legacy Foundation stewards estates of Legacy Artists,
promotes new scholarship, and awards outstanding artists.

Legacy Artist Stewardship

A Legacy Artist donates their artwork and archives for posthumous management by Artists’ Legacy Foundation.
Our Legacy Artist is Viola Frey.

The Artist Award

Since 2007, Artists’ Legacy Foundation has granted more than $400,000
to anonymously nominated painters and sculptors.
Stay tuned for the fall announcement of the 2026 Artist Award winner!

Marie Watt, Singing Everything: Crescendo (Flood), 2023, reclaimed wool blankets, tin jingles, embroidery floss, and thread, 102 x 144 inches. Embroidered in sewing circles at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8-12, 2022. Photo: Kevin McConnell. Image courtesy of the artist.
Left: Viola Frey in her Third Street studio, Oakland, California, 1987. Photo: M. Lee Fatherree.
Right: Artwork by the 2024 Artist Award recipient Marie Watt, Singing Everything: Crescendo (Flood), 2023, reclaimed wool blankets, tin jingles, embroidery floss, and thread, 102 x 144 inches. Embroidered in sewing circles at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8-12, 2022. Photo: Kevin McConnell. Image courtesy of the artist.