The Museum’s program of national and international loan exhibitions (which had begun long before Rogers’ tenure and which provided valuable income for the museum) was expanded in Rogers’ time. Exhibitions, and sometimes individual masterpieces, traveled to Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Switzerland. It was, however, the Museum’s venturing to Las Vegas (at the same time as the Hermitage Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum had presences there) that aroused most controversy, and in particular the loan of 21 paintings by Monet to the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, reportedly for a fee of $1 million.