311 WORKS GIVEN BY CONTAINER CORP. TO MUSEUM

The National Museum of American Art has received a gift of 311 paintings, sculptures, drawings and collages.

The donation, for which no dollar figure was given, came from the Container Corp. of America, with headquarter in Chicago. Among the artists represented are Willem de Kooning, Gyorgy Kepes, Rene Magritte, Larry Rivers, Leonard Baskin and Ben Shaun.

“This extraordinarily diverse collection represents a pioneering corporate commitment to design art and culture in America,” said Charles Eldredge, director of the museum.

“It includes many individual works of major importance and, collectively, it documents a corporation’s leading role in the cultural life of our nation,” he said.

Each of the modern works of art was commissioned by the firm.