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TIMELINE:

Meadows School of the Arts
and Meadows Museum

1915 SMU opens with programs including music, theatre, and art.
1917 SMU establishes a School of Music.
1962 Algur H. Meadows, through The Meadows Foundation, gives SMU funds for construction and endowment of a museum to house works of art from Spain.
1964 SMU establishes a comprehensive School of the Arts.
1965 The Meadows Museum opens as part of a new arts center at SMU.
1967 Through the support of Algur H. Meadows and The Meadows Foundation, an aggressive but highly selective museum acquisitions program begins, adding masterpieces by leading Spanish artists, including Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Miró, and Picasso.
1969 Algur H. Meadows and The Meadows Foundation provide additional funds for acquisition of works by leading 20th-century sculptors, including Rodin, Maillol, Lipchitz, Oldenburg, Henry Moore, and David Smith.
1969 The Meadows School of the Arts is named in honor of Algur H. Meadows, its major benefactor.
1998 The Meadows Foundation provides $20 million, its largest gift at that time, for construction of a new, freestanding museum building to significantly expand facilities for exhibition, research, and educational programming.
2001 The new Meadows Museum opens with an International Festival of Opening Events attended by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain.
2006 Mark Roglán, an expert in Spanish art, is named director of the Meadows Museum.
2006 The Meadows Foundation pledges $33 million to SMU for Meadows School of the Arts and the Meadows Museum, with $25 million designated for the museum and $8 million for the Meadows School. This is the largest single grant ever made by the Foundation and the largest single financial gift ever received by SMU.

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