Judd Foundation

Judd Foundation

Incorporated in 1996, the Judd Foundation preserves Donald Judd's permanently installed living and working spaces, libraries, and archives across New York and Marfa, Texas. Rainer Judd serves as President while Flavin Judd is Artistic Director, maintaining direct family governance over a collection that includes the Donald Judd Collection, a Modernist Furniture Collection, and a library of the artist's books. The foundation's deployment is concentrated in the preservation and operation of seventeen properties. The landmark 101 Spring Street in SoHo serves as the New York flagship, while the Marfa holdings include La Mansana de Chinati (The Block), the Architecture Office, the Art Studio, and the Ranch Office, among others. A conservation easement on the Chinati Mountains in Presidio County adds a land-stewardship dimension. The foundation litigated against Kim Kardashian over trademark and copyright infringement of Judd furniture designs, signaling an active enforcement posture toward its intellectual-property portfolio. The foundation operates as a nationally affiliated museum program. It participates in Historic Artists' Homes & Studios, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. It partners with the Chinati Foundation, the sister organization Donald Judd founded in Marfa to champion large-scale permanent installations. The Judd Foundation is not a grantmaker or investment pool but a direct operator of physical artworks and the spaces they occupy. Its governance remains tightly held by the founder's children, who make curatorial, legal, and operational decisions as a family board. The foundation's dual-city footprint — a SoHo cast-iron building and a West Texas desert campus — creates a structural differentiator that no other single-artist foundation can replicate at this scale of spatial control.