COLLECTION PROMISED TO HONOLULU MUSEUM; GRANT FOR WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu has been promised a collection of artwork worth nearly two million dollars for the museum’s twentieth anniversary, reports the Pacific Business News. The museum announced Friday that the former owner of the Honolulu Advertiser, Thurston Twigg-Smith, and his wife, Sharon, have promised their collection of work by contemporary artist H. C. Westermann. The work includes one painting, sixteen sculptures, thirteen drawings and watercolors, and thirty-four prints. The Twigg-Smiths are longtime trustees and contributors to the Contemporary Museum.

In other news, the Williams College Museum of Art has been awarded a grant of four hundred thousand dollars from the Terra Foundation for American Art to help implement the exhibition “Prendergast in Italy.” The exhibition, organized by WCMA in partnership with the Terra Foundation, will open in the summer and travel to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The grant is the largest the museum has ever received for an exhibition.