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Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) Acquires Peck Collection of Drawings

In January 2017, Dr. Sheldon Peck, a long-time member of HNA, and his wife Leena donated their extraordinary collection of old-master drawings to the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina. The collection was built by the Pecks over the past four decades. The gift, valued at $25 million, includes an 8 million endowment to support a new curator, digitization and cataloguing as well as future acquisitions. It is the largest gift to date presented to the museum. The collection includes, among others, 100 works by Dutch and Flemish artists, among them seven drawings by Rembrandt. Other artists represented are Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van Goyen, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Paul Bril.

Jacob Jordaens, Portrait of Elizabeth van Noort, the artist’s mother-in-law, c. 1630s; black, red, and white chalks on buff “oatmeal” paper, 12-3/8 x 9-5/8 in. Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Peck Collection
Rembrandt van Rijn, Studies of a Woman and Two Children, c. 1640; reed pen and finger rubbing in dark brown (iron gall) ink, 5-3/8 x 5-13/64 in. Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Peck Collection

 

Published on June 8, 2017

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