Address
500 Capp Street
San Francisco
California
Pacific
94110
United States
After David Ireland moved out of 500 Capp Street in 2004 due to failing health, his family prepared to put the House on the market in order to help with his financial needs. The home’s fate became uncertain during the following years. In 2008, San Francisco art collector and patron Carlie Wilmans, granddaughter of late Bay Area philanthropist Phyllis C. Wattis, purchased the building. Soon after she established The 500 Capp Street Foundation, appointing prominent local art patron Ann Hatch and Yale University Art Gallery director Jock Reynolds—both longtime friends and associates of Ireland—as fellow founding trustees in oversight of the house as a venue for the preservation and study of the artist’s work. Ireland passed away in 2009 at the age of 78.