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Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
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Professor Charles H. Morgan of the College's Fine Arts Department was responsible for developing the museum's original art collection. He became the museum's first director in 1948, a position which he held for twenty years. The Mead Art Museum building was constructed in 1948-49 on the site of the Stearns Church (the Stearns Church spire was retained). Construction was financed by gift from William R. Mead (AC 1867) and directed by the college architect, James Kellum Smith of the firm McKim, Me...
