She has also been responsible for important acquisitions of works by artists like Beuys, Donald Judd, Robert Gober and Matthew Barney.
He has also been responsible for the Walker's acquisitions of works by popular living artists, including Doug Aitken, David Hammons, Thomas Hirshhorn, Pierre Huyghe and Luc Tuymans.
Over the next 50 years there were new acquisitions of works by, among others, Piero della Francesca, Goya, Constable, Van Eyck, Memling, Ruysdael and Claude (the monumental "Sermon on the Mount").
Since 1998 the museum's membership has risen to 44,000 from 24,000, and its acquisitions of works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Chuck Close and Frank Stella put the institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art.
He also started the departments of pre-Columbian and Primitive art and contemporary art, which under him made the museum's first acquisitions of works by Picasso, Calder, Brancusi, Klee, Giacometti and many others.
This show of more than 100 paintings celebrates the Met's acquisitions of works by School of Paris painters, going back to 1946 when Gertrude Stein bequeathed her portrait, done by Picasso in 1906.
In 2000 MoMA acquired 1,000 prints by Friedlander, their largest acquisition of work by any living photographer.
M+, the planned museum for the $2.8 billion West Kowloon Cultural District, waited for Art Basel to announce a major acquisition of work by Tehching Hsieh, a New York-based performance artist originally from Taiwan.
