Allentown, Pa., museum acquires collection from estate of modernist artist Peter Grippe

Pa. museum gets artist Peter Grippe’s collection

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — An eastern Pennsylvania art museum has received one of its largest gifts ever — about 500 works and property once owned by modernist artist Peter Grippe.

The collection given to the Allentown Art Museum features Grippe’s own sculptures, drawings and prints. It also includes works by Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jacques Lipchitz and poet Dylan Thomas.

Museum executive director Greg Perry says the collection will be a boon to the institution’s 20th century holdings.

Grippe was a Cubist-inspired sculptor and printmaker who died in 2002. His widow made the museum donation. She and Perry had worked together in the past.

Information from: The Morning Call, www.mcall.com