Cummer Museum receives $4 million gift to name and endow new director post
(Artdaily.org)

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens has received a $4 million gift to name and endow the position of Executive Director, providing an important stimulus as the Museum searches for a new chief executive. This, the second largest gift to the Museum since it was established in 1961, comes from The Disosway Foundation of New York, established by Dudley D. Johnson, a Jacksonville native who currently serves as a trustee of the Museum and whose grandfather, George W. Gibbs was influential in the development of Jacksonville during the first half of the twentieth century. The gift is named in honor of Johnson‟s grandparents. Mr. Gibbs, born in 1884, was both an inventor and pioneer shipbuilder. He started the Gibbs Gas Engine Company in 1908 to build gas engines to his designs. By 1910, it turned to building ships including U.S. Navy Sub