The late Miss Loula D. Lasker, former vice-president of Hadassah, bequeathed more than $1,000,000 worth of paintings, sculptures and other art objects to a number of museums, plus cash legacies to the City of New York, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Brandeis University and other beneficiaries, totaling more than $1,300,000, according to the contents of her will made public here by her attorneys this weekend. Miss Lasker died last January at the age of 72.
The bulk of the art legacies will go to the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem, which will receive the art works through the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Bezalel will receive paintings by Dufy, Monet, Renoir, Dali and Utrillo as well as drawings, lithographs, other paintings and sculptures by many other leading artists, including Matisse, Ghagall, Gauguin, Degas and Rodin. One painting will go to the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, while others have been bequeathed to other leading museums in New York, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas, to Vassar College and to Brandeis University.
Various national charities will receive $472,000. A $300,000 trust fund was set up in the will for scholarships in the field of urban redevelopment and housing. New York City’s bequest, amounting to $600,000, is for a swimming pool and skating rink, to be matched by a New York City appropriation.
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