Sentences with phrase «largest bequests»

«He plans to leave a large bequest to a charity,» Moran says.

Now that he's gone, Lisa is faced with the challenge of growing her savings so she can follow Jim's wishes and leave a large bequest to charity.

«He plans to leave a large bequest to a charity,» Moran says.

Five hundred artworks have been acquired in her years, including Artemisia Gentileschi's «Self - Portrait as a Lute Player,» to be exhibited soon, a large bequest of Arts and Crafts furniture and decorative arts by collector Stephen Gray and works by Richard Tuttle, Georgia O'Keeffe and Kiki Smith, among others.

This gift is the largest bequest received by the museum in its history, and will establish an endowment to expand and enhance the museum's collection of English and European works of art from the 18th century and earlier in memory of the late Schwartz, a former museum member.

Following its acquisition news, the museum announced the largest bequest in its history, a $ 9 million gift from the Estate of Madeleine Rast.

According to the Times this lawyer, in an arrangement with other lawyers who drew the wills, had previously received very large bequests from several very grateful rich clients.

In Iowa, during the course of representing a client in a criminal case, an attorney found out that his client was the beneficiary of a large bequest from a long lost Nigerian cousin.

Not exact matches

The protagonist of Humboldt's Gift, Charlie Citrine, is a successful playwright and biographer who returns to the Chicago of his boyhood; muddles about in the urban scene while trying to straighten out a marital problem; leaves for Spain with a large friend, Renata; is deserted by her; returns to America to bury his old friend Von Humboldt Fleisher; and receives his bequest.

But if you made the $ 14 million in bequests via your will, the money would be part of your taxable estate and, depending on when you died, might trigger a large estate tax bill.

$ 12.6 million bequest is largest - ever gift for veterinary schoolMonroe Evening NewsEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP)-- A $ 12.6 million bequest from an alumnus is the biggest single gift ever for Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.

MSUToday $ 12.6 M bequest is largest - ever gift for veterinary schoolWashington TimesThe late Albert C. Dehn earned his veterinary degree in 1950 and practiced in his hometown of Abbotsford, Wisconsin.

Record $ 9 million bequest for National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts has received a bequest of $ 9 million — the largest individual gift in the institution's 30 - year history — from the estate of California business woman Madeleine Rast, it was announced yesterday.

The Bequest consisted of eight large paintings painted in the previous three years by contemporary British artists and bought by Bristol out of money left by L.R. Dyer, a local benefactor.

Tate is home to the largest collection of works by Turner in the world and almost all of his works accepted by the nation as part of the 1856 Turner Bequest.

A large majority of these treasures are from the bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt that was made in 1947.

Because the bequest is so large and valuable it is being split up with museums and galleries now bidding for different works and groupings of works.

The second edition of FestiWall is just finished, leaving 5 new large scale murals by 5 artists as a bequest to the people of the city of Ragusa, Sicily.

Although the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's, collection of post-World War II art has grown in recent years, thanks in large part to bequests from life trustee Caroline Wiess Law and Los Angeles real - estate developer Edward R. Broida, the museum still lacks permanent gallery space to showcase it.

With their support, large extensions were added to the gallery including seven new rooms to display the Turner Bequest in 1910 and the Duveen Sculpture Galleries, the first galleries build specifically for sculpture in England.

In 1855, a bequest by the Basel art dealer Samuel Birrmann (1793 - 1843) established a significant fund to purchase contemporary Swiss art, an early acquisition of which was a large group of paintings by the Basel artist Arnold Bocklin (1827 - 1901)- who was, along with Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918), the greatest Swiss painter of the 19th century.

Biology is clever, adaptable, and has a large evolutionary bequest.

However, while there may be more «spare» cash available for people to leave to charities, large charitable bequests are increasingly putting the charities that receive them in conflict with a will's other beneficiaries.

Harvard Law School has benefitted from Wasserstein's largesse - the large academic wing of the school's new Northwest Corner complex will be named Wasserstein Hall, in recognition of a recent bequest.

This is a lawfully realistic way to give the most bequests to one's kids and large children.

The largest charitable bequest to a single beneficiary in B.C.'s history was undertaken by Real Estate Institute of Canada past - president William (Bill) McCarthy of WPJ McCarthy and Company in Burnaby, B.C.