The Phillips Collection in Washington has received a $10 million gift from Beatriz and Graham Bolton, the largest from an individual donor in the museum's 105-year history, to launch a new fund supporting its global ambitions and its education department. The Beatriz and Graham Bolton Global Vision Fund will support exhibitions, loans and partnerships with museums, galleries, embassies and cultural organisations around the world.

The gift will also endow the role of chief of education and responsive learning, which will be named after the Boltons, and the museum will rename its education gallery the Peggy Bolton Community Gallery, after Graham's mother. The couple have supported the museum before, funding its Zilia Sánchez retrospective in 2019, a Bernardí Roig exhibition in 2024, and installations in its Intersections series, as well as its Creative Aging programme, which gives older adults living with memory loss a direct experience of art.

Beatriz Bolton said conversations about the gift began about a year ago and were strengthened by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation's $15 million gift to the museum this past June. She said generosity had a way of inspiring more generosity and hoped the gift would encourage others to support the Phillips. Bolton, who joined the museum's board in 2022, said the couple's decision to fund its global ambitions grew out of her own international life — born in Havana, raised in Miami, educated in Madrid — and her belief that art is a universal language and museums should reflect a diverse world.

The museum's director, Jonathan P. Binstock, said the Boltons wanted the gift to inspire others and to show how one can support an institution one loves. He linked the fund to the museum's founder, Duncan Phillips, who established the collection in 1921 to elevate American artists to the level of Europeans. The fund will also help the museum pursue its 2025-29 strategic plan, including its partnership with the Musée d'Orsay in Paris on a forthcoming exhibition, and its aim of welcoming visitors from many cultural backgrounds, including those for whom English is not a first language.