Boston Museum Trustee Gives Trove of Over 6,000 Artworks

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has received a gift of artwork from a trustee, the value of which the organization’s officials would only estimate at “nine figures,” according to The Boston Globe.

Saundra Lane, a trustee of the museum, and her late husband, William, who made his fortune in plastics manufacturing, have been influential collectors of American modernist paintings and photography. Ms. Lane’s latest gift to the museum included 6,000 photographs (most of which are by Charles Sheeler and Edward Weston), 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings, including major creations Hyman Bloom, John Marin, Stuart Davis, and Franz Kline.

The works’ quality and quantity, says Malcolm Rogers, the museum’s director, makes Ms. Lane “one of only a few collectors who have changed the face of the museum.’’

The museum has said it plans to be generous in making loans from the collection to other institutions.