of renovations to the building that was combined with additional funds of $85,000 from other sources to complete the project. Beginning in December 1943 and continuing over a period of about eighteen months, Fesler also made a series of acquisitions that she donated the Art Institute to fill what she considered to be gaps in the museum's collections. Fesler's first major gifts of art to the Herron museum included eight paintings that formed the core of The Marmon Memorial Collection, named in honor of her parents. The artworks included Hobbema's The Water Mill (The Trevor Landscape); Corneille's Portrait of a Man with a Glove; Cuyp's The Valkhof at Nijmegen; Ruisdael's Landscape with Cascade; Van Gogh's Landscape at Saint-Remy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) ; Kalf's Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar; Seurat's The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe; and Cézanne's House in Provence. These additions to Herron's collections helped the museum attain national stature among U.S. art museums. She also acquired Georgia O'Keeffe's Grey Hills, and donated her friend's painting to the Herron museum in 1943. Fesler made other donations of fine art to the Art Association, even when the selection proved to be controversial. One instance occurred in 1944 after members of Herron's arts committee, preferring more conservative works from well-established artists, declined to purchase Pablo Picasso's Ma Jolie (1914). Fesler acquired the painting herself and bequeathed it to the museum in 1960. Fesler's support of the Art Association continued after her death. In her will she bequeathed to the organization a $500,000 gift for improvements to the Herron museum/art school at its 16th Street site. Herron's board approved the use of $300,000 from the bequest to build a three-story wing for the Herron art school. Indianapolis architect Evans Woollen III designed the new building, which was constructed at the northwest corner of the Paul Philippe Cret-designed building that Fester had funded in 1928. In addition to Picasso's Ma Jolie (1914), Fesler bequeathed several more paintings from her private collection to the Herron museum. These works included Picasso's Music, Henri Matisse's Seated Girl, Georges Braque's Still Life with Red Fish, Giorgio di Chireo's Street of Arcades, Marc Chagall's Horse and Rider, and Marie Laurencen's Circus Horse. Music patron In addition to art, Fesler enjoyed classical music, especially chamber music. She was also a patron of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In 1944 she founded Indianapolis's Ensemble Music Society and