$100 million gift set to transform Colby College Museum of Art

Malcolm Gay, The Boston Globe, February 3, 2017

Maine’s Colby College Museum of Art has received a gift worth more than $100 million from longtime Colby benefactors Peter and Paula Lunder, including nearly 1,150 artworks and funds to establish the Lunder Institute for American Art. College officials said the transformative gift will make Colby unique among liberal arts colleges, offering what they describe as a world-class art museum and an international research center for the study of American art.

“The Lunders’ generosity has transformed Colby College and the arts landscape in Maine,” Colby president David A. Greene said in a statement. “Now, with this gift to significantly expand the collection and create the Lunder Institute, the Museum will become a global destination for artists, scholars, and visitors.”

The gift to the art museum, the largest in Maine, includes works dating from 1501 to 2014 by more than 150 artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Albrecht Dürer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maya Lin, Claes Oldenburg, James McNeill Whistler, Ai Weiwei, Jasper Johns, and Mary Cassatt.

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