Collections Summer 2013 Volume 96 | Page 12

NEW ACQUISITIONS Growing the Collection collection and complement the 26 works on paper by Taylor, which are already in the collection. The museum was also given two paintings by writer and painter, Lee Hall (b. 1934). Hall served as the dean of Visual Arts at the State University of New York/ Purchase and president of the Rhode Island School of Design. Hall was at the epicenter of the Abstract Expressionist movement, writing a significant book on Elaine and Bill de Kooning and exhibiting her work at the influential Betty Parsons gallery. Carl Van Vechten American, 1880-1964 Portrait of Prentiss Taylor (detail), 1930 gelatin silver print Gift of John A. Zeigler, Jr. in 2013 Victoria Cooke, curator Expanding the