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Seattle University is planning for a brand new artwork museum, because of a present of a $300 million artwork assortment and $25 million in seed cash from a donor, the college trustees introduced on Wednesday.
The donation — by Richard Hedreen, an actual property developer — is the biggest present within the historical past of the college, a Jesuit establishment based in 1891, the trustees stated in a press release.
Hedreen is donating his total assortment, which has greater than 200 artworks courting from the fifteenth century to right now, together with artwork by Thomas Gainsborough, Lucian Freud and Amy Sherald.
“It’s a outstanding educating assortment,” the college’s president, Eduardo Peñalver, stated in a cellphone interview, including that “we sit up for having that on our campus and have our school, our college students have the ability to use that throughout your entire curriculum in sparking their very own studying and dialogue.”
Hedreen stated in a press release that he was donating the gathering in honor of his spouse, Betty, who was a Seattle University alumna and served on the Seattle Art Museum board of trustees. She died in 2022.
“I’m assured {that a} Jesuit college, which focuses on educating and the visible arts, poetry, literature, historical past, training is the appropriate place to have a museum that may train artwork historical past,” Hedreen stated in a cellphone interview.
The new museum shall be open to college students and the general public, Peñalver stated, including that it might be “a bridge between our campus and the town.”
Edgar Gonzalez, the vice chairman for college development, wrote in an e mail that the college has already begun discussions with an architect associated to the deliberate museum and that the venture would take about three to 5 years to finish. “The seed funding will permit us to start shifting ahead with the venture instantly,” Gonzalez wrote.
