In 1922 the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) became the first American museum to acquire a painting by Vincent van Gogh. The museum paid a mere $4,200 for a self-portrait the artist had painted in 1887 ...
"Vase with Poppies" c. 1886 is authenticated Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art In 1957, a private collector bequeathed a trove of Impressionist works to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford ...