Cass Gilbert which now houses the George Gustav Heye Center. Gilbert served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1910 to 1916. In 1906 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1908. Gilbert served as President of the Academy from 1926 to 1933. Gilbert was a skyscraper pioneer; when designing the Woolworth Building he moved into unproven ground — though he certainly was aware of the ground-breaking work done by Chicago architects on skyscrapers and once discussed merging firms with the legendary Daniel Burnham — and his technique of
Arthur Gilbert (real estate developer) in Jerusalem in 1925. He was educated at boarding school from the age of four. Gilbert was a successful businessman in England, selling gowns designed by his first wife. He immigrated to the United States to obviate taxes in 1949. Once in the Los Angeles area, he became a real estate developer. He developed industrial sites under the name of the Gilbert Financial Corporation. Gilbert served on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He loaned a large collection of objets d'art to the Museum from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. He discontinued the