Irene Leache Memorial Gifts to Chrysler Museum Strengthen Collection

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"Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels" (16th century) by Cornelis van Cleve, .

VIRGINIA---The Irene Leache Memorial Foundation has donated its entire collection of European Old Master paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts to the Chrysler Museum of Art. At its March meeting, the museum’s board of trustees voted unanimously to accession the Irene Leache Memorial art collection. On long-term loan to the Museum since within a year of its 1933 opening, the Irene Leache Memorial collection comprises 27 works of art dating from the 14th through 19th centuries. Accompanying the gifts of art is another substantial bequest—an endowed curatorship. [link]