2015

Installation view, First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2016-17. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. © 2016 Kara Walker

In the largest gift ever made to the museum, trustee Barbara Lee donates 20 works by 12 artists to become part of the Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women including a room-sized installation by Kara Walker exploring the legend of Huckleberry Finn, as well as works by Louise Bourgeois, Carol Bove, Ellen Gallagher, Eva Hesse, and Sherrie Levine.