museum received its first major donation, a valuable collection of North American Indian artifacts given by Dr. Frederick Weygold. 1941 – Dr. Preston Pope Satterwhite donates his collection of 15th century and 16th century French and Italian Decorative Arts including tapestries and furniture. 1944 – Satterwhite donates the English Renaissance room, which was moved in its entirety from Devon, England. Dr. Satterwhite's gift necessitated an enlargement of the museum and in his will he provided for the addition that bears his name. Completed in 1954, it was the first of three additions to the original building. 1946 – Paul S. Harris becomes the first professional director of the museum. During his tenure, acquisitions to the collection were made mostly in the areas of decorative arts and furniture. 1964 – Recently donated paintings and furniture from the collection of Mrs. W. Blakemore Wheeler go on view including works by Mary Cassatt, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Maurice Utrillo, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1966 – Charter Collectors Group forms to assist the museum in the acquisition of pre-1940 art. 1970 – New Art Collectors Group forms to assist the museum to acquire contemporary art. 1973 – The North Wing of the museum opens, giving new space for a theatre, offices, indoor sculpture court, and library. 1977 – The Speed celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1977 with the acquisition of Rembrandt's Portrait of a Woman, one of the museum's most significant acquisitions. 1983 – The 1983 Wing opens, designed by Robert Geddes of Princeton. The new wing adds gallery space for permanent collections and special exhibitions. 1996 – Alice Speed Stoll dies, bequeathing over $50 million to the museum. The Speed closes to undertake an extensive renovation. Newer lighting, heating and cooling systems, multi-layered labels about the collection, the Laramie L. Learning Center, and Art Sparks Interactive Family Gallery are put into place. 1997 – The museum reopens. 2012 – The museum begins another major transition with a $60 million expansion project that will create a space for larger special exhibitions, new contemporary art galleries, a family education welcome center, 150-seat cinema, indoor/outdoor café, museum shop, and a multi-functional pavilion for performances, lectures and entertaining. The museum is closed to the public for three years during the construction period. 2013 – The Speed staff relocates offsite to the downtown Louisville neighborhood of Phoenix Hill and opens Local