An Art Collection’s Escape From L.A.

Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall
The show arrives amid an undeniably complex moment in Los Angeles: Kennedy and Marshall’s home was spared from the fires, and yet so many others were destroyed. Photo: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
Julie Brener Davich
January 19, 2025

About six months ago, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and her husband, the film producer Frank Marshall, made a prescient call to their art advisor, Barbara Guggenheim. The couple, who live in Sullivan Canyon in Brentwood, were nervous about the risk of wildfires and wanted to sell the collection of 20th century American regionalist and social realist art that they’d built over nearly four decades.