Potter, who serves on Beverly Hills' Fine Art Commission, has donated works to the Hammer Contemporary Collection.
Others come from yard sales or thrift stores; the Trash Collectors Union in Cambridge, Massachusetts has donated works rescued from imminent demise.
Over the years they have donated works to other institutions.
Some artists and collectors who said they had donated works or sold works at a lower price to foster education, were also displeased.
More than 50 artists, including Cindy Sherman, Sol LeWitt and Kiki Smith, have donated works to be auctioned on Sunday in New York by the legal defense fund of the Critical Art Ensemble, an arts collective, the group announced yesterday.
At the Christie's sale in New York in March, a painting by Tyeb Mehta, an established artist from Mumbai, broke the $1m barrier.As Zara Porter Hill, head of Sotheby's Indian art department, suggests, it is a sign of KMoMA's importance to both artists and collectors that so many have donated works to the benefit sale next week.
Sotheby's will devote most of the proceeds from an upcoming auction (July 17) to the project; artists, collectors, and galleries have donated works by a wide selection of modern and contemporary Indian artists, including Tyeb Mehta, Jehangir Sabavala, Rameshwar Broota, and Arpita Singh.
Kate asked 15-year-old Tierthe if her husband William was included and, when told that he was, replied: "Good!" The Duchess met artists who have donated works for a silent auction to raise money for The Art Room including Jenny Savile, Yinka Shonibare, Maggi Hambling and Marc Quinn.
More than seventy photographers or their estates had donated works to raise funds for the education of Hammerl's three children — an eleven-year-old daughter, Aurora, and two sons, Neo, who is eight, and Hiro, who was six weeks old when his father died.
