The Bennett Collection

Estimated to be a $10 million gift to the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Bennett Collection comprises over 200 works of art by contemporary and historical women artists, such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt, Elaine de Kooning, Andrea Kowch, Zoey Frank, Katie O’Hagan and many more. Works in the collection span from the early 1600s to present day. Art collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt established the collection in 2009 with a special emphasis on women artists who painted women in a figurative realistic style. The premiere of this collection coincides with the opening of the new expansion to the Muskegon Museum of Art, appropriately named the Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt Pavilion.