And there was the recent $100,000 bequest in an admirer's will.
Fine art (including Newlyn School paintings and a recent bequest of works by Bryan Pearce)
A recent bequest, he said, has permitted it to embark on an exterior restoration campaign, supervised by the architectural firm of Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn.
For example the recent bequest of the architect Gordon Bunshaft included a second cast of Miro's "Moonbird," a large bronze sculpture from 1956.
The museum's collective mind has lately been concentrated elsewhere: on its physical expansion and on a recent major bequest of paintings.
The first exhibition in the new galleries next spring will also be something new, the recent bequest by the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.
The third and most appropriate is Head I (1947-8), by the British painter Francis Bacon, a recent bequest to the Met.
WHILE established museums are struggling with a drop in the philanthropy that has long helped to build their collections, a recent bequest to the Dallas Museum of Art stands out as a model of generosity.
The expanded American chronology now incorporates the recent bequest of early Twentieth-century art from the Lowenthal Collection (see The Art Newspaper No.20, July-Sept. 1992, p.4).
The Modern already has 15, Mr. Lowry said, including a recent bequest: de Chirico's "Serenity of the Scholar" (1914), from Sylvia Slifka, a collector who died in April.