Several private collectors, meanwhile, donated vast acquisitions of Aboriginal ethnographic material – secret and sacred objects, bark art, hunting weapons and Indigenous bones and body parts.
Highlighting the breadth and depth of the collection through 50 of the 605 acquisitions donated since 2006.
Biotechnology company Chiron Inc. Wednesday said its second-quarter profit rose 23% as stronger sales of products like its inhaled antibiotic and a test for detecting HIV in donated blood offset acquisition-related charges.
In addition, Christopher Ondaatje, a London-based philanthropist, donated $157,600 to the acquisition, as did the Tate's Patrons of British Art.
Dr. Sackler also endowed The Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler and Theresa Sackler Gallery in the European Paintings Galleries and donated funds for related acquisitions.
But he has been largely inactive there recently, turning his attention to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which in February opened the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a $56 million facility that Mr. Broad paid for and to which he donated another $10 million for art acquisitions.
In the TNC dataset, properties that were fully donated to TNC (i.e. acquisition cost = USD $0.00) accounted for over 645 thousand acres of habitat or 12% of the total area protected as fee simple.
These relatively small museums have little to no budgets for acquisitions, their collections are donated by collectors or the artists, and they are rarely crowded.
Rather than just jawbone over steak at BLT Prime, Mr. Anderson actually delivered some news: Marguerite Steed Hoffman, a Dallas philanthropist, has donated $17 million to the museum for the acquisition of Old Master paintings and European sculpture.
He raised funds for the department, bought armor, wheedled it from collectors and donated to the museum most of his own acquisitions.
