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The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, or simply the Clark, is a well-known art museum located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was founded by Robert Sterling Clark, explorer, businessman and passionate art collector, and his wife Francine. The amazing collection they managed to create includes paintings, porcelain, silver, drawings, prints. There are paintings of old masters as well as more recent works from Impressionists and members of the Barbizon School. The institute was opened to public in 1955. Today the museum, that is famous mainly thanks to unique artworks of Auguste Renoir, is building up its photography collection. Art lovers and scholars can admire beautiful collections of American and British silver. It is place that helped to bring the artistic reputation of the region of the Berkshires to another level. Besides the possibility to view the art the institute also offers various educational programs. There is art history library open to the public as well as art conservation center. The students of Williams College, which is private liberal arts college in Williamstown and to which Sterling Clark had certain ties through his father and grandfather, are allowed to the museum for free. Now the Clark Art Institute has been granted $5 million from the Starr Foundation. The money are aimed for the institute´s research and academic program that came to existence in 2000 and that has been educating curators and art historians successfully. The Clark has always sponsored different lectures and conferences that take place every year and this money will be used also to cover these expenses and thus continue to draw participants from all around the globe. No doubt money from the Starr Foundation, which has assets of approximately $3 billion and makes grants not only in culture but also medicine, education, environment an others, are in good hands.

related story: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view/2008_07_07_Clark_Art_Institute_gets__5_million_grant/srvc=home&position=recent

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