California Couple Gifts $25 Million Japanese Art Collection to Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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Life-size 13th-century wooden sculpture features a grimacing,
multi-limbed Buddhist deity astride a kneeling bull. 

MINNESOTA---A California cattle breeder who amassed a top-notch collection of Japanese art worth $25 million has gifted it to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Nearly 1,700 objects spanning 1,000 years — paintings, sculpture, ceramics, woodblock prints, bamboo baskets — represent the biggest gift ever to the museum, and will transform it into one of the country’s largest and most comprehensive centers of Japanese art. MIA director Kaywin Feldman has a friendship with the donors, Libby and Bill Clark, that dates back to the mid-1990s, when she ran Fresno’s art museum. [link]