Rose Gets Art

The Rose Art Museum has announced a series of gifts from multiple donors.

The museum values these gifts of about 40 works from the last two decades to be worth more than $2 million. Artists include Mike Kelley, Jessica Stockholder, James Hyde, Beat Streuli, and David Reed.

The big donor, who gave a single collection worth $1 million, wants to remain anonymous, the museum says.

More from a press release:

"Other significant gifts were recently received from Boston collectors Joan and David Genser and from Rose Board of Overseers’ members including Jonathan Novak, Marlene Persky and Gerald Fineberg. The Genser gift is a large multimedia work on handmade paper by James Rosenquist, “Space Dust,” from 1989. The Rose owns several important paintings by Rosenquist.

Jonathan Novak has donated a series of unique ink on paper works by Robert Motherwell from 1965 called “The Lyric Suite” plus a bronze sculpture by Joel Shapiro from 1992. Marlene Persky, chair of the Rose’s collections committee, has given a photograph by Vic Muniz and Gerald Fineberg donated two drawings by Marcel Dzuma."

Dominic McGill "Project for a New American Century" 2004, graphite on paper, 80 inches by 65 feet. Gift of Michael Black and Melody Douros.