Seattle Museum Gets $1-Billion in Artworks
April 2, 2007
The Seattle Art Museum on Friday announced that it has received 1,000 works of art worth more than $1-billion, reports the Seattle Times.
The pieces include works by Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mark Rothko.
Donors of the works include Susan and Jeffrey Brotman, Jane Lang Davis, Barney A. Ebsworth, Marshall and Helen Hatch, Sam and Gladys Rubenstein, Jon and Mary Shirley, Griffith and Patricia Way, and Virginia and Bagley Wright, the newspaper said.