> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Mead Art Museum Receives Over 170 Pieces of Contemporary Art From Anonymous Donor - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/mead-art-museum-receives-over-170-pieces-contemporary-art-from-anonymous-donor/ - Published: 2019-08-08T23:00:16.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:39:28.000Z - Description: Plus, that iconic portrait of Beyoncé is going to the National Portrait Gallery, and three museums in Munich have joined to restitute nine Nazi-looted artworks. - Author: Eric Vilas-Boas - Tags: News, Transactions, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/08/1-calame-ingrid_cggong.jpg) Ingrid Calame “CgONG!” (made from “#70 3/4 Working Drawing”) (2002) enamel on aluminum, 48 x 48 inches (courtesy the artist) The [**Mead Art Museum**](http://www.artnews.com/2019/08/08/mead-art-museum-anonymous-donation/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Amherst College received 170 works of contemporary art from an anonymous donor. The pieces span a range of formats and media from masters and emerging artists alike, including works by **Mona Hatoum**, **David Hockney**, **Toba Khedoori, Ingrid Calame, Carroll Dunham**, **Robin Rhode**, and **Analia Saban**, among many others. Selections from the gift will be shown at an exhibition titled *Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts*, which starts from September 10, 2019, and runs through July, 2020. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/08/7-dunham-carrol_particular-aspects-three.jpg) Carroll Dunham “Particular Aspects (three)” (2003), mixed media on canvas, 71 1/8 x 57 1/4 inches (180.7 x 145.4 cm) framed (copyright Carroll Dunham, courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels) Three museums in Munich have [restituted nine Nazi-looted pieces of art](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/restitution-munich-museums-1616695?ref=hyperallergic.com) to the families of their original Jewish owners. The **Bavarian State Painting Collections**, the **Bavarian National Museum**, and the **State Graphics Collection** returned nine paintings, casts, and engravings in a ceremonial handoff to the heirs of Jewish collectors Julius and Semaya Franziska Davidsohn, after provenance research showed that they had been looted. The [**Ogonquit Museum of American Art**](https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/02/ogunquit-museum-of-american-art-gets-2-million-gift/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Portland, Maine, has received a $2 million gift from one of its board members, **Ann Ramsay-Jenkins**. According to the museum, this is the largest donation it has gotten since since its founding gift, and the money will go toward its endowment and programming. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/08/unnamed.jpg) Sister Gertrude Morgan, “God’s Greatest Hits” (ca. 1970). Mixed media on paper. 9 x 13 inches. (Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Gordon W. Bailey. Image courtesy of Gordon W. Bailey.) The [**Pérez Art Museum Miami**](https://www.flaunt.com/content/gordon-bailey-pamm?ref=hyperallergic.com) received 46 artworks from Gordon W. Bailey, a collector who has given to the museum before. His latest gift includes work from artists like **Sam Doyle**, **Thornton Dial**, **Clementine Hunter**, **Sister Gertrude Morgan**, **Minnie Evans**, and **Leroy Almon**, spanning drawing, painting, and sculpture. Seattle’s [**Frye Art Museum** ](http://artdaily.com/news/115831/Frye-Art-Museum-acquires-works-by-four-artists-from-the-2019-Seattle-Art-Fair?ref=hyperallergic.com)acquired four works by artists shown at the 2019 **Seattle Art Fair**. This follows a previous acquisition of two pieces from the art fair. The new pieces are “Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)” (2018), by **Jeffry Mitchell**; “Untitled” (2019), a multimedia piece by **Ko Kirk Yamahira**; “this trembling turf (the shallows)” (2018), by **Mary Ann Peters**; and “To a Flame” (2019), by **Anthony White**. > A year ago today we broke the flood gates open > > Now I’m glad to share this picture is being acquired into the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection [pic.twitter.com/T97rHU9u8J](https://t.co/T97rHU9u8J?ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Tyler Mitchell (@Tyler\_Mitchell\_) [August 6, 2019](https://twitter.com/Tyler%5FMitchell%5F/status/1158728214900072449?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) The[ **Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery**](https://twitter.com/Tyler%5FMitchell%5F/status/1158728214900072449?ref=hyperallergic.com) has acquired photographer **Tyler Mitchell**‘s portrait of Beyoncé, originally taken for the cover of *Vogue*, for its personal collection. Mitchell was the first African American to shoot a *Vogue* cover, doing so for the magazine’s prestigious September issue in 2018\. He was also one its youngest cover photographers ever when he did so at the age of 23. The [**Christie’s**](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/inside-job-christies-staff-art-show/lots/1635?SortBy=CurrentBidHighToLow&Page=1&PageSize=60&ShowAll=false&ref=hyperallergic.com)Staff Art Show closed at a final receipt of $39,625, selling various works from Christie’s employers with proceeds going to the charity Sing For Hope. The top of the ticket: **Maggie Moran’s** oil painting “Welcome Spring,” which sold for $5,625.