Photo collector and ophthalmologist William Tsiaras gives 500 works to Colby College Museum of Art in Maine
James Van Der Zee. Tap Dance Dress Rehearsal (1928), vintage gelatin silver print The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection William Tsiaras has a good eye—a trait that serves him well as both an ophthalmologist and an influential photography collector, who has quietly donated hundreds of works to museums over the years. His latest gift is to his undergraduate alma mater’s Colby College Museum of Art in Maine of more than 500 photographs from his personal collection, built over the past 25 years alongside the works he would acquire for institutions. As a board member a...
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