RUTGERS ACQUIRES SALGO COLLECTION

The Salgo collection, described as the largest and most important assemblage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hungarian art outside of Central Europe, is to be acquired by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick at Rutgers as a gift from the Salgo Trust for Education, reports the New York Times‘ Lawrence Van Gelder. The collection, formed for the most part while Nicolas M. Salgo served as United States ambassador to Hungary in the 1980s, comprises 350 works by more than one hundred artists. Among the styles represented are nineteenth-century academic painting, plein-air painting, Art Nouveau, and Secessionist works, twentieth-century avant-garde works, and others in the regionalist style of the interwar period.