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Thanks in part to a $5 million gift from Chicagoans Jean and Steven Goldman announced this week, The Art Institute of Chicago plans to begin work early next year on a study center and galleries for the Department of Prints and Drawings. Enhancing that gift is the intention of the Goldman’s to give approximately 80 Old Master drawings — ranging from works by Raphael and Tintoretto to the “Head of the Christ Child” by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (Il Sodoma) — to the department, making it one of the most important gifts of art in the department’s history. When the center opens midyear 2001, with the galleries opening sometime thereafter, it will be called the Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Galleries and Study Center.
