The Met has received $20 million to acquire European paintings, drawings and prints, along with European sculpture and decorative arts.

In addition to a commissioned mural in 1932 Dance II, 1932 Barnes acquired many paintings and drawings by Matisse.

The Government will acquire 464 paintings, drawings, mosaics and art objects done between 1903 and 1981 and "representative of Chagall's entire life's work," the statement said.

He also acquired drawings from the University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, who became a close friend.

For several years the drawings department at the Getty has been fairly quiet, letting institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan acquire important drawings when they come up for sale.

The Metropolitan also acquired several important drawings: a Raphael, a Lorrain and a Parmigianino.

The couple preferred art that revealed the working methods of the artist, and to this end acquired drawings and other preparatory work related to the artists' total oeuvre.

Although Ms. Polak acquired drawings of only 10 sites, it took her more than a year to collect them.

After acquiring drawings with a Nova 1200 purchase, Digital Computer Controls designed its own nearly identical minicomputer.

His pastime started when he acquired drawings of an Australian type of whistle and shortly afterwards a Canadian design was received from a fellow steam enthusiast in the South of England.