Jim Dine s diptych Harry Mathews Skis the Vercour (1973) has been donated to the Rose Art Museum Sotheby s
Twelve years after its collection seemed fated to be sold off by Brandeis University to raise funds, the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, says it has received gifts of 86 works of art including pieces by Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Betye Saar and Andy Warhol in honour of the 60th anniversary of its founding.
The donations appear to reflect renewed confidence in the university’s ability to sustain the museum and its 9,000-plus works of art after the attempted 2009 shutdown, and to survive the current financial downturn precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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