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Luther W. Brady of Philadelphia has been an extraordinary friend of the Reading Public Museum. His generosity has spanned more than two decades and his gift giving ranks him among The Museum’s most devoted patrons. In celebration of his recent, landmark bequest of more than 100 works of art, RPM will host The Luther Brady Bequest.

Dr. Brady, a world-renowned radiation oncologist was an avid supporter of the visual and performing arts. He served two terms on The Museum’s board and was a member of RPM’s Collections Committee. Dr. Brady was also an Emeritus Board Member of the Santa Fe Opera, served on the Board at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, and was a member the Collections Committees at the Philadelphia Museum of Art — where he also endowed the Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art — and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His first gift to RPM came in 2002 and since that time, he has donated a large group of artworks ranging from ancient South- and Central-American pottery, to North-American Indian objects, to modern and contemporary American and British painting and sculpture. In 2006, a gift of more than forty Pre-Columbian works was given as part of The Museum’s renovation and reinstallation of the Latin American Gallery.