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Show Utah Museum of Fine Arts Gifts and Grants MUSEUM RECEIVES $100,000 CHALLENGE GRANT The Museum is the recipient of a $100,000 National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant. Chairman Frank Hodsoll announced that tbe Utah Museum of Fine Arts is one of 68 national arts organizations to earn a grant this year. "We are grateful for the $100,000 award, but also for the fact that the Museum has been identified as one of the nation's quality cultural institutions," said Museum Director, E. Frank Sanguinetti. ''The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is one of only three university art museums receiving the award this year. The other two being the Yale University Art Gallery and the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington." The $100,000 grant must be matched three times within three years with private contributions. The matching funds, which must come from new and increased sources of contributed income, help grantees to gain new money on a continuing basis by broadening the base and range of their financial support. The program is aimed at increasing contributions from the private sector as well as public sources outside the Federal Government. The $100,000 grant and the $300,000 matching funds will be used to aevelop a $400,000 rrogramming endowment for the Museum. The annua interest revenues from this endowment will be used to support the exhibition and educational pro~ams of the Museum. As the Museum raises over two thirds of its annual budget, and cannot use University funds for special exhibitions, this endowment will be invaluable in providing ongoing support for temporary exhibitions and special educational programs. Individuals or organizations which contribute $5,000 or more to the Challenge Grant Programming Endowment will be listed on a marble plaque at the Museum's entrance. Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Dr. Robert S. Olpin, stressed that the award will contribute to increased long-term stability and will aid in intensifying efforts to increase endowment gifts. Said Olpin: 'The Challenge Grant is a tribute to the management and programming at the Museum. There is enormous competition among institutions and intense scrutiny given to each applicant. We are delighted that our plans for the Museum have been sanctioned by such an important and prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Arts." The Challenge Grant Program is designed to assist arts institutions of the highest artistic quality achieve longrange financial stabifity. Jeanne Hodges, Director of the Endowment's Challenge Grant Program, says, "the central purpose of Challenge grants is to strengthen the nation's best arts institutions, those with the most established reputation of artistic excellence, by giving them a strong financial base." Pair of covered vases, 19th C.,Dresden porcelain, 18 3/4" x 19", Gift of Mrs. Leslie M. Eskuche MRS. LESLIE M. ESKUCHE GIFT OF ART OBJECTS The Museum received over 60 objects of art from the estate of Leslie M. Eskuche. The objects include Meissen, Limoges, Sevres, and Dresden porcelains; Oriental rugs; French furniture, mirrors and paintings; a clock; glassware; and other decorative art objects. The Museum is extremely ~rateful to Mrs. Eskuche and her family for these gtfts, which gave the donor great pleasure in selecting and exhibiting during her lifetime. GEORGES. DIBBLE FAMILY GIFTS Following on the very successful George Dibble Retrospective (January 22 to February 26, 1989), George and Jonathon Dibble have made gifts of art to the Museum. George S. Dibble has contributed two of his watercolors: Untitled, 1982 and Going Up, 1976. George's son, Jonathon Dibble has made a gift of two watercolor paintings by his father, Cedar Canyon, 1955 and Cubist Still Life, (n.d.), and a lithograph by his father entitled Big Cottonwood, 1938 (illustrated on the cover). The gifts have been added to the Museum's collection of histonc and contem~rary art by Utah artists. This collection is used for exhibitions, education and research. While the Museum already had several works by George Dibble, these recent additions will ensure a more comprehensive representation of his work. The Museum is delighted to make these additions by a principal modern Utan artist, teacher and art critic. |
