Princeton Art Museum announces major gifts of abstract art and the Haskell Education Center

Preston H. Haskell III ’60 has made a leadership gift in the Venture Forward campaign toward the creation of the new Princeton University Art Museum, to be recognized with the naming of a new education center in that facility. He is also making a gift of art that is one of the most significant gifts in the museum’s history, including eight canonical abstract paintings from his private collection.

When the Art Museum reopens, it will include eight masterpieces of abstract painting from Haskell’s collection, constituting one of the most significant gifts of art in the museum’s history, including:

Willem de Kooning, Woman II, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 1961
Helen Frankenthaler, Belfry, acrylic on canvas, 1979
Hans Hofmann, The Chair, oil on panel, 1944
Hans Hofmann, Composition #3, oil on canvas, 1952
Joan Mitchell, Aires pour Marion, diptych, oil on canvas, 1975-76
Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting (613-3), oil on canvas, 1986
Jean-Paul Riopelle, Terre Promise, oil on canvas, 1960
Mark Rothko, Untitled, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 1968