WENDY VAN HAERLEM, President
Wendy studied with Lorser Feitelson at Art Center College of Design and in a private study group focused on painting composition. In 1978 she assisted Lundeberg with the initial inventory of the Feitelsons’ artwork and collections at the beginning of the Foundation’s organization. Wendy joined the Board in 1980 and has been serving as President since Lundeberg’s death in 1999.
TOM BOLES, Treasurer
MARIAN YOSHIKI-KOVINICK, Secretary
Marian Yoshiki Kovinick is an independent writer, researcher, and lecturer, who co-authored An Encyclopedia of Women Artist of the American West, with Phil Kovinick, receiving the 1998 Western Heritage Award for “Outstanding Art Book,” from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. She has been a contributor, essayist and co-author of books on American artists, including The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960; California Light, 1900-1930; and American Scene Painting: California 1930s and 1940s; Grove's Encyclopedia of American Art to 1914; Publications in Southern California Art, Vol. 6; Living in Color: The Art of Hideo Date; Guy Rose: American Impressionist; and Sam Hyde Harris:1889–1977:A Retrospective; Scenic View Ahead: Westways Cover Art Program, 1928-1981. Yoshiki-Kovinick co-curated and was an essayist for the exhibition A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles and curated and authored Love Never Fails: The Art of Edouard and Luvena Vysekal, both for the Pasadena Museum of California Art. A former high school teacher and archivist for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, she is an alumna of the University of Southern California, receiving a BA in Social Studies/United States History and Physical Education.
SUZANNE MUCHNIC
Suzanne Muchnic writes about art. A staff writer at the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, she is also the author of art books, exhibition catalogs and magazine articles. Her first book, Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture, published in 1998, is a critically acclaimed biography of a famously shrewd and unpredictable art collector who left a stellar legacy at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. Helen Lundeberg: Poetry Space Silence, published in 2014, is a richly illustrated biography of a highly revered Los Angeles painter known as a pioneering modernist with a visionary spirit. Muchnic’s latest book, LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making, tracks the 100-year evolution of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from the weakest branch of a tripartite institution in Exposition Park to an artistic powerhouse on Wilshire Boulevard. A graduate of Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University, Muchnic is a Distinguished Alumna laureate of both institutions.