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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, photo taken by Alex Feldstein, Aug. 2006, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.

Boston museum gets $10M gift from Bank of America

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, photo taken by Alex Feldstein, Aug. 2006, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, photo taken by Alex Feldstein, Aug. 2006, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.

BOSTON (AP) – The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is getting a $10 million gift from Bank of America.

The gift is split evenly between cash and several works of art, including a piece by contemporary artist Ellsworth Kelly, a 22-foot-long, five-panel work titled Blue Green Yellow Orange Red.

In recognition of the gift, the museum’s Huntington Avenue entrance plaza will be called the “Bank of America Plaza on the Avenue of the Arts.” An unveiling is planned for Friday with MFA director Malcolm Rogers and Anne Finucane, the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank’s global strategy and marketing officer.

The bank’s Massachusetts president, Robert Gallery, tells The Boston Globe the gift aligns with the bank’s efforts to make the museum more accessible, which in the past has included free admission programs for its account holders.

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