SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY RECEIVES $45 MILLION FOR MUSEUM AND ART SCHOOL

The Meadows Foundation has given $25 million to the Meadows Musem and $20 million to the Meadows School of Art, both at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, reports Michael Granberry at the Dallas Morning News.

The foundation previously donated $20 million in 1998 to build Meadows Museum at SMU, which opened as a separate building in 2001 after spending its early years inside the university’s Meadows School of the Arts. The foundation also gave another $33 million to the university in 2006.

Algur Meadows, a Dallas businessman and philanthropist, established the Meadows Foundation in 1948; in 1962 he funded the establishment of a museum at SMU to house his private collection of Spanish art. The Meadows Museum first opened to the public in 1965. Since 1962, the foundation has given a total of $145 million to support the Meadows Museum, Meadows School of the Arts, and other university programs.