The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is an art museum in Winter Park, Florida. It is best known for having the largest and most distinguished collections in the state.
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum traces its roots in 1937 after the Samuel H. Kress Foundation donated a number of Italian Renaissance paintings to the Rollins College. The school opened a small museum to house such art works, which soon grow through additional donations and gifts. Aside from the initial paintings donation, the museum also received a Louis Sonntag painting from George H. Sullivan in 1950. It also received pieces by Francesco de Mura and other big names in the following years.
The Cornell Fine Arts finally materialized fully after an alumna, Harriet Cornell, contributed more than $1 million to build the complex. This is why the site is formally known after her and her husband, the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Center, which opened in 1978.
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