Clark Institute gets big donation

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., long known as a home for French and American paintings, is making room for a $90 million British invasion thanks to a donation from the foundation of Sir Edwin Manton.

Works by Renoir, Monet, Homer and Sargent will now share space with a flood of Turners, Constables, Gainsboroughs and other pieces from the English Romantic period of the early 1800s that were owned by Manton, a driving force behind AIG Insurance who died in 2005.

The new pieces include about 200 works valued at about $40 million. They come with a $50 million cash donation.