Ackland Art Museum

Ackland Art Museum
	Shown within North Carolina
Established	September 20, 1958
Location	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°54′44″N 79°03′16″W / 35.91236°N 79.05443°W
Type	Art museum
Director	Katie Ziglar
Curator	Peter Nisbet (Chief Curator); Timothy Riggs (Curator Emeritus)
Public transit access	Chapel Hill Transit
Website	www.ackland.org

The Ackland Art Museum is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded through the bequest of William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940) to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[3] It is located at 101 S. Columbia Street near the intersection of Franklin Street at the northern edge of campus.

It is free of charge to visitors and offers a wide selection of events related to exhibition, community, and university topics.

History

William Hayes Ackland, a native of Tennessee and an amateur art collector, wanted to leave money in his will to establish an art museum at a Southern university. In a 1936 will, he initially narrowed his choices to Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Rollins College in Florida, in that order, with UNC receiving the donation if Duke refused it.^[4]^[5] After a visit to Duke's campus and meetings with the then-eager administration, Ackland decided that only Duke should receive the $1.25 million bequest and removed UNC from his will, with Rollins receiving a much smaller donation.^[5] Ackland, who had turned down the chance to attend Harvard College due to family pressure to stay near home, always regretted the decision. Some commentators speculate that he might have viewed Duke as "the Harvard of the South."^[6]

Ackland bequeathed Duke his entire fortune on the condition that he be buried within the newly built museum.^[4] After Ackland died in 1940, Duke decided the gift had "too many strings attached" and declined it. But three Duke benefactors—all from the Duke family—had already been buried on the Duke campus.^[4]

Ackland's nieces and nephews went to court to claim the inheritance for themselves, and Rollins College (represented by former United States Attorney General Homer Cummings) and the University of North Carolina (represented by attorney O. Max Gardner) followed in an attempt by each college to receive the funds for the art museum.^[4] The relatives took the case to the United States Supreme Court, arguing that since only Duke had been mentioned in their uncle's will, only Duke could receive the gift. They should receive the money due to Duke's refusal.^[5]

Five years after the suit was filed, Ackland's family members lost their case in the Supreme Court. In 1947 a Washington, DC court found that in his final days, Ackland had been more partial to Rollins than UNC; it ruled for Rollins to receive the bequest.^[4] But the Ackland trustees had decided that UNC-Chapel Hill should receive the donation, based on both the financial condition of the university and its proximity to Duke. An appeal of the lower court decision resulted in UNC being ruled the recipient of Ackland's bequest (which had grown to $1.4 million) in 1949. Ackland's remains were moved from Mount Olivet cemetery in Nashville and he was reinterred at the museum at UNC.^[6]^[7]

Collection

The permanent collection at the Ackland holds about 17,000 works, with its most notable regional holdings in Asian art as well as works of art on paper (i.e. prints, photographs, and drawings). The collection also has important holdings of European masterworks, twentieth-century and contemporary art, African art, and North Carolina pottery.^[8] Artists in the collection include Eugène Delacroix, Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Max Weber.

In 2024 the museum restituted the painting L'atelier du Maître / The Master's workshop to the heirs of Armand Dorville, a French Jewish art collector whose family was murdered in the Holocaust.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Select gallery
Guercino, Assumption of the Virgin
Jean-Louis Le Barbier [fr], portrait of Mélanie de Forbin-Gardanne, Marquise de Villeneuve-Flayosc (1759-1841)
Richard Westall's Sword of Damocles (1812)
Eugène Delacroix, Girl Seated in a Cemetery (1824)
Hiram Powers, Duff Greene, marble sculpture (1834-1837)

References

^ "History of the Ackland". Ackland Art Museum. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
^ ^a ^b "Staff Directory". Ackland Art Museum. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
^ "Ackland Art Museum: About". Artinfo. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Mr. Ackland's Wills". Time magazine. 1947-06-30. Archived from the original on May 24, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Fight for a Fortune". Time magazine. 1946-02-04. Archived from the original on July 12, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
^ ^a ^b "History of the Ackland". Ackland Art Museum. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
^ "Chapel Hill Wins Legacy; Court Holds University Heir to Ackland's $1,400,000". The New York Times. 1949-02-04. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
^ "About the Collection". Ackland Art Museum. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
^ "L'atelier du Maître / The Master's workshop | Lost Art Database". www.lostart.de. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
^ McCormack, Joshua (2024-01-17). "Ackland returns art to rightful heirs | UNC-Chapel Hill". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
^ "More than 80 years after it was taken from a Jewish family, a painting at a NC museum returns home". WUNC. 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-02-16.

External links

Official website

[1] "History of the Ackland". Ackland Art Museum. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-06.

[Staff_Directory-2] "Staff Directory". Ackland Art Museum. Retrieved 2011-08-15.

[3] "Ackland Art Museum: About". Artinfo. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-24.

[time_1947-4] "Mr. Ackland's Wills". Time magazine. 1947-06-30. Archived from the original on May 24, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-30.

[time_1946-5] "Fight for a Fortune". Time magazine. 1946-02-04. Archived from the original on July 12, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-30.

[ackland_history-6] "History of the Ackland". Ackland Art Museum. Retrieved 2008-11-30.

[nytimes-7] "Chapel Hill Wins Legacy; Court Holds University Heir to Ackland's $1,400,000". The New York Times. 1949-02-04. Retrieved 2008-11-30.

[8] "About the Collection". Ackland Art Museum. Retrieved 21 March 2015.

[9] "L'atelier du Maître / The Master's workshop | Lost Art Database". www.lostart.de. Retrieved 2024-02-16.

[10] McCormack, Joshua (2024-01-17). "Ackland returns art to rightful heirs | UNC-Chapel Hill". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2024-02-16.

[11] "More than 80 years after it was taken from a Jewish family, a painting at a NC museum returns home". WUNC. 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-02-16.

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