DELAYED GRANTS FROM ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION START TO COME THROUGH

The Judith Rothschild Foundation has paid at least some of the grant money that it had neglected to award to seventeen arts groups last year, according to one recipient, according to the New York Times. “I’m glad I got it because it pays for the catalogue and some printing costs,” said Natalie Edgar, the director of the Philip Pavia Trust in New York, which had been awarded seven thousand dollars toward a book about the works of Pavia, a sculptor.

Edgar was among those who had filed complaints with the New York State attorney general’s office after failing to receive their grant money last year.

Wendy Snyder, director of the Sam Glankoff Collection in New York, said she had also received the ten thousand dollars she had been promised toward the conservation of works on paper by Glankoff, a painter. Edgar said she had received, along with the check, a handwritten note from Harvey S. Shipley Miller, the foundation’s sole trustee, apologizing for the delay. Miller said in January that he had been unable to pay the grants because he had suffered a serious accident. Efforts to reach Miller on Tuesday were unsuccessful; his home number was out of service. His attorney, Erik Stapper, did not respond to messages left at his office.

The foundation was established fifteen years ago under the terms of the will of the abstract painter Judith Rothschild—who died in 1993—in part to encourage interest in underrecognized American painters, sculptors, and photographers who died from 1976 to 2008 (fifteen years before the date of her will and fifteen years after her death).