The Norton Museum of Art announces an extraordinary gift of art from Mrs. George T. (Valerie) Delacorte consisting of more than 60 objects including Old Master, and 19th - and 20th - century paintings, sculpture and works on paper including artists such as
Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt,
Ferdinand Bol, Adriaen Hanneman, Giambattista Tiepolo, J.-B.-C. Corot, Joaquin Sorolla, and
Modigliani. This is a transformational gift, making the Norton Museum ’s collection of Old Master paintings one of the largest and most important virtually overnight. To celebrate this unprecedented gift, The Norton Museum of Art will display a selection of its works in the ongoing installation Rubens to Corot: The Delacorte Gift which will open to the public on March 19, 2008. Conservation of artworks from The Delacorte Gift has been made possible through the George T. and Valerie Delacorte Endowment.