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Museum of Fine Arts receives massive gift from trustee

A transformative trove of works from a devoted benefactor

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 20, 2012

The Museum of Fine Arts announced it had received an extraordinary, long-hoped-for gift of 6,000 photographs, 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings from Saundra Lane, a museum trustee and long-time friend of the MFA. The gift, potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars, makes Mrs. Lane, in the words of MFA director Malcolm Rogers, “one of only a few collectors who have changed the face of the museum.’’

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