[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 52 (Tuesday, April 1, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S1916]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                     REMEMBERING STANLEY GRINSTEIN

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, today I ask my colleagues to join 
me in honoring the life of Stanley Grinstein, a successful businessman, 
a patron of the arts, a philanthropist, and a social activist. He was 
also a great friend of mine, and I will miss him dearly.
  Born in Seattle in 1927, Stanley moved to Los Angeles with his family 
and graduated from the University of Southern California. He and his 
father started what would become a thriving forklift business that 
Stanley ran until he sold the company in 2000.
  In 1952, Stanley married Elyse, the love of his life. The couple 
began collecting art and soon became well-known patrons of modern 
artists.
  In January 1966, Stanley joined fellow art patrons Sidney Felsen and 
Ken Tyler to establish Gemini G.E.L., an artists' workshop and art 
print publisher. The first facility of its kind on the West Coast, 
Gemini quickly became a magnet not only for emerging Los Angeles 
artists but also for leading New York artists.
  Among the many artists who worked and published at Gemini were Robert 
Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, and Frank 
Stella. In 1981, Gemini donated its archives--containing works by these 
and other modern masters--to the National Gallery of Art. By this time, 
Stanley had begun his 26-year tenure as a trustee of the Los Angeles 
County Museum of Art, LACMA. Over the years, he and Elyse made many 
major gifts to LACMA, including a seminal work by Marcel Duchamp and 
all 124 of Robert Rauschenberg's posters.
  Beyond the art world, Stanley was a deeply committed social activist 
who generously gave his time and resources in support of human rights, 
free speech, justice, and equality.
  Stanley was also a longtime benefactor of the Cedars Sinai Medical 
Center, where he served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, 
and Advisory Council for the Arts. A passionate believer in the role 
that art can play in the healing process, Stanley helped fill Cedars 
Sinai with art and brought joy to countless patients.
  Stanley Grinstein believed in living every moment to the fullest and 
inspiring others to enjoy what he called ``the party of life.''
  I send my deepest condolences to Stanley's beloved wife Elyse; their 
daughters Ayn Grinstein, Ellen Grinstein Perliter, and Nancy Grinstein; 
sons-in-law Chuck Perliter and Neal Rabin; and six grandchildren 
Amanda, Joe, Alex, Willie, Tess, and Dia. I know they will truly miss 
this marvelous man, as will I.

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