Kimbell Art Musem to Showcase Art From the Private Collections of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas - Texas is a place full of ambitions, and one of these ambitions is the subject of an exhibition opening at the Kimbell on November 22nd: the desire on the part of a wide range of Texans to collect major works of European painting and sculpture for display in their homes. The exhibition surveys the history of private collecting in Texas from the oil boom days of Spindletop to the present day, telling the stories of the men and women in the state who, through private means, and for private purposes, have formed significant collections of European paintings and sculpture of the highest discernment—collections that might seem more at home in Paris, France, than Houston, Texas, or on an English country estate than a West Texas cattle ranch. On view through 21 March, 2010 at the Kimbell art Museum.