LOS ANGELES—A week after it announced that it would sell two paintings from its collection at Sotheby's later this month, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has placed more than 100 objects from its costumes and textiles collection in an auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles on February 8 and 9.

Among the garments are some belonging to actress Rosalind Russell in the 1950s and a black wool cocktail dress from about 1950 by legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head.

The items are "works that were stored in a warehouse, of which we have better examples," said LACMA spokeswoman Barbara Pflaumer. "It's part of an ongoing project to reevaluate our collection. As we go forward, we are looking at it with ... a more gimlet eye."

The department also recently made several donations: Clothes from California's pioneer past went to the Los Angeles County Museum of National History and the Autry National Center of the American West, and dresses that had belonged to Nancy Reagan were given to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The donations and sales, according to director Michael Govan, are part of an ongoing "sift and sort" process and have "nothing to do with the economic times."

After earning $15.1 million for a number of controversial deaccessions in 2005–06, LACMA earned $1.6 million by deaccessioning in 2006–07 and $3.9 million in 2007–08.