The generosity of the Bunting family has made possible the acquisition of a spectacular marble and jasperware mantelpiece, designed in 1882 for Buckminster Park in Leicestershire, England.

The Birmingham Museum of Art is fortunate to have acquired one of the most significant and unusual examples of porcelain ever made in the United States.

Max Klinger, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer, was considered one of the most versatile artists in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Museum has recently acquired an outstanding early work by British photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot—a landscape scene from Loch Katrine, Scotland, from about 1845.

The Birmingham and Magic City chapters of The Links Inc. have joined together with the Museum’s Sankofa Society to purchase "Words of Justice II," a painting by Ethiopian artist Wosene Kosrof, for the Birmingham Museum of Art’s collection. Planning for the acquisition was organized by Minnie W. Finley and Majella Chube Hamilton, chairwomen of the Arts Facet of their respective Links chapters along with committee members and other Facet chairs. The Sankofa Society is the Museum’s support group for the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora.

The Birmingham Museum of Art recently acquired a fine example of early 19th-century American portraiture by the Philadelphia artist Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860). The son of Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), the eminent painter and patriarch of a distinguished family of American artists, Rembrandt followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming one of this country’s leading portraitists.