Colby College Museum Receives $100 Million in Artworks From Peter and Paula Lunder

Brian Boucher, Artnet news, February 3, 2017

Works by Olafur Eliasson, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell, and Georgia O’Keeffe, to name just a few, are among a donation of almost 1,150 pieces to Maine’s Colby College Museum of Art. The donors, Peter and Paula Lunder, estimate the value of the group of works at $100 million. As part of the gift, the museum will launch the Lunder Institute for American Art.

The gift spans some 500 years of art history, including a 1501 Albrecht Dürer engraving as well as very recent works by artists like Julie Mehretu. Among the many others included in the cache are Mary Cassatt, Jasper Johns, Nina Katchadourian, Vincent van Gogh, Ai Weiwei, and James McNeill Whistler.