More walls and floor space—the recurring dream of collectors and museums alike. And a dream that came true for the recently renamed Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2012, when the museum was increased to 176,000 square feet, becoming the second largest university art museum in the country.1 Forty-two years earlier, university-owned works of art from various campus buildings were transferred to the newly established art museum, named after Conrad Elvehjem, a past president of the university, and the task of building a comprehensive art collection began.
