Sam Hunter, the first director of the Rose Art Museum, came to Brandeis from the Museum of Modern Art, and with a small grant of $50,000 from collectors Leon Mnuchin and his wife, Harriet Gevirtz-Mnuchin, launched a collection with iconic works by Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Willem de Kooning and several others—21 works with a ceiling of $5,000 for any one piece bought with the grant.
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Several of the university's large donors were reportedly particularly hard hit due to investment with Bernard Madoff.
Pepe's break into the art world began with inclusion into a 1996 group exhibition of Boston Area Artists at Rose Art Museum and in "Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late 20th Century Art" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in Boston in 1997.
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