The City and County accepts from Moore S. and Hazel J. Achenbach the gift of a collection of etchings, engravings, lithographs and other forms of graphic art and drawings, consisting of approximately 75,000 works of art. Such collection shall be placed in suitable quarters in the buildings maintained by the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and shall remain in the custody, management, supervision and operation of and by the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Portions of the collection shall be on exhibition for the inspection of the public during all times that the main building of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor is open.
In accepting the gift, provision will be made for the California Palace of the Legion of Honor to engage a curator and assistant curators for the collection, subject to the conditions herein elsewhere set forth, who shall be persons experienced in the collection and exhibition of graphic arts. They need not be residents of City and County, nor be subject to the civil service provisions of the Charter of the City and County. Their duty shall be to supervise the maintenance of the collection and designate the times when and the portions thereof to be placed on exhibition. Such other assistant curators shall be provided by the California Palace of the Legion of Honor for the proper maintenance, management, supervision, operation and storage of the collection.
In the event that the California Palace of the Legion of Honor should at any time fail to carry out the intent and conditions under which the gift is made, the objects of art shall revert to and become the property of the donors or the survivor, or in the event of their death, of such corporation, association or individual as the donors may designate, either in their joint wills or in the will of the survivor as between them, or in a joint declaration of trust that may be made during the lifetime of the donors, or in a declaration of trust that may be made by the survivor as between the donors. For the purposes of carrying out the intent of this Section, the Mayor is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with Moore S. and Hazel J. Achenbach and execute any and all other papers or documents required for its accomplishment.
The collection shall be known and referred to at all times as the Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts.
The provisions of this Section shall be subject to the budget and fiscal provisions of the Charter of the City and County.
(Res. No. 10629 (1939); amended by Ord. 24-00, File No. 992319, App. 2/25/2000)