Colby College Museum of Art Receives $100 Million Gift from Peter and Paula Lunder

News Desk, ARTFORUM, February 3, 2017

The donation adds more than eleven hundred artworks to the museum’s collection and will establish the Lunder Institute for American Art.

“The Lunders’ generosity has transformed Colby College and the arts landscape in Maine,” president David A. Greene said. “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 of paintings, sculptures, photography, and works on paper by more than one hundred and fifty artists includes works dating from the sixteenth century—such as an Albrecht Dürer engraving made in 1501—to the twenty-first century. Among the artists represented in the collection are Mary Cassatt, Jasper Johns, Nina Katchadourian, Jacob Lawrence, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Betye Saar, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt van Rijn, Ai Weiwei, Fred Wilson, and James McNeill Whistler. With this gift, the Lunders have contributed more than fifteen hundred works of art to the museum.