Family Gives $100-Million Art Collection to College

An alumnus of Colby College has given that institution a collection of American art valued at $100-million or more, reports The Portland Press Herald.

Peter H. Lunder, and his wife, Paula Crane Lunder, donated their collection of more than 500 paintings, sculptures, and prints by artists such as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Mr. Lunder graduated from the college in 1956, and he and his wife have been longtime supporters of Colby’s art museum, the paper reports.

Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, called the collection “hands-down one of the top private collections of American art anywhere.”