Virginia Museum of Fine Arts receives $100 million gift of 130 American paintings including some of my favorite painters: Whistler, Homer, Sargent, and Cassatt.
RICHMOND. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has received 130 American paintings, valued in excess of $100 million, from trustee Frances G. McGlothlin and her husband James W. McGlothlin, chairman and ceo of the Virginia-based financial services and industrial supply company United Co. and one of the US’s wealthiest individuals. The gift transforms the museum’s holdings of American art with oil paintings, watercolours, pastels, and sculptures by artists who include Whistler, Homer, Sargent, and Cassatt, among many others.
Technorati Tags: art, impressionist, art collectors
