. The Metropolitan museum of art; a review of fifty years' development, printed on the occasion of the fifieth anniversary of the founding of the Museum . ell Sage gives Bolles Collection of American addition to building, The Library, McKim, Mead & White, C. Purdon Clarke, Director, Director, Edward Robinson, A. Hearn gives another collection of English and American Stewart Kennedy bequest, over $2,600,000. 1911 Lecture Hall opened. 1912 Francis L. Leland gift, over $1,000, addition to the building (Addition
. The Metropolitan museum of art; a review of fifty years' development, printed on the occasion of the fifieth anniversary of the founding of the Museum . ell Sage gives Bolles Collection of American addition to building, The Library, McKim, Mead & White, C. Purdon Clarke, Director, Director, Edward Robinson, A. Hearn gives another collection of English and American Stewart Kennedy bequest, over $2,600,000. 1911 Lecture Hall opened. 1912 Francis L. Leland gift, over $1,000, addition to the building (Addition H), McKim, Mead & White, Pulitzer bequest, over $900, of Arms and Armor organized. 1913 Death of J. Pierpont Morgan. Fifth President, Robert W. de Forest, Secretary, Henry W. Kent, Altman bequest, paintings, sculpture, Chinese porcelains, etc., and Henry Riggs gives collection of arms and of the Museum published. 1914 Loan exhibition, the J. Pierpont Morgan Col- Edward J. Tytus gives fund for publicationof Museum Egyptian Expedition CHRONOLOGY John L. Cadwalader bequest, English furniture,porcelains, and fund. 1915 Mrs. Morris K. Jesup bequest, paintings and Robert W. Gillespie bequest of tapestries. 1916 Edward S. Harkness gives Tomb of Perneb. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., gives Colonna Raphaeland sculpture from the Chateau de Biron. 1917 Department of Prints organized. Harris B. Dick bequest, collections and fund,over $1,000,000. First manufacturers exhibition. Isaac D. Fletcher bequest, collection of paintingsand objects of art, and fund, over $3,400,000. Eighth addition to building (Addition J occu-pied, Addition K not yet completed), McKim,Mead & White, Architects. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., gives collection of objectsof art. 1918 J. Pierpont Morgan Collection of objects of art installed in Wing of Decorative Arts, hereafterto be called the Pierpont Morgan Wi
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