Lasting Impression: Since it opened in 1955, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has drawn 200,000 visitors annually to see its French Impressionist paintings among 9,000 works of art.
In the late 1990s, Michael Conforti, the director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, decided the Clark sorely needed a renovation and expansion of its existing buildings. In order to attract—and accommodate—visitors to its extraordinary collection of Impressionists and Old Masters in its arcadian setting in the Berkshires, he asked Cooper, Robertson & Partners to come up with a master plan. In 2001, the firm proposed siting a new structure housing a conservation lab and visitor center behind the two major buildings on the Clark campus: the 44,000-square-foot museum, a white marble temple designed in the classical style by Daniel D. Perry in 1955, and the art library next door, the Manton Research Center, a 100,000-square-foot Brutalist behemoth designed by Pietro Belluschi with The Architects Collaborative in 1973.
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