New York’s Top Art Collectors
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ArtNews magazine has announced its 15th annual list of the top 200 collectors, which is published in its Summer 2005 issue. The top 10 include New Yorkers Leon and Debbie Black, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder, Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder, Henry R. and Marie-Josee Kravis (the out of towners were Eli and Edythe Broad, Steve Cohen, Laurence Graff, Mitchell Rales, Charles Saatchi, and Stephen and Elaine Wynn). Other New York collectors follow:
Leon and Debbie Black
New York investment banker
Old Masters, Impressionism, modern painting, Chinese sculpture, contemporary art
Mary Livingston Griggs Burke
Philanthropist
Japanese art
Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Chairman/CEO, Cisneros Group
Latin American, European, and American modern art and contemporary art; 17th- to 20th-century Latin American landscapes; Amazonian ethnographic objects
Douglas Cramer
Television producer
Contemporary art, especially 1960s and 1980s American
Michel and Helene David-Weill
Former chairman, Lazard Freres
17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century French paintings
Daniel Filipacchi
Chairman, Hachette publications
Modern art, especially Surrealism
Glenn Fuhrman
Managing partner, MSD Capital
Contemporary art
Arthur and Carol Goldberg
Money Manager
Contemporary art
Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro
President Emerita, MoMA
Contemporary art, African art, Chinese art
Marieluise Hessel
Philanthropist
International contemporary art, especially since 1960
Samuel and Ronnie Heyman
President, GAF Corporation
Modern art, contemporary art, especially Miro, Leger, Gorky, Giacometti, and Dubuffet
J. Tomilson and Janine Hill
Vice Chairman, the Blackstone Group
Postwar American and European art
Michael and Susan Hort
Collector
Contemporary art
Carl Icahn
Investor
Old Masters, Impressionism
Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky
Chairman, Andy Warhol Foundation; trustee, MoMA
Modern drawings, contemporary drawings, especially American
Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis
Founder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Old Master drawings and paintings, Impressionism, 20th-century art, French furniture
Jon and Barbara Landau
Movie producer
Old Master drawings and paintings, 19th-century French paintings, American modernism
Emily Fisher Landau
Philanthropist
Contemporary American art
Leonard and Evelyn Lauder
Chairman, Estee Lauder; Chairman, Whitney Museum
Modern art, especially Cubism
Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder
Chairman, Clinique Laboratories; Chairman, MoMA
Old Masters, 19th- and 20th-century art, especially Austrian
Adam Lindemann
Head of Mega Communications
Contemporary art, tribal art
Daniel and Margaret Loeb
Head of Third Point Management
Postwar, contemporary art
Michael and Ninah Lynne
Co-Chairman, New Line Cinema Corporation
Contemporary art
Harry and Linda Macklowe
CEO, Macklowe Properties
Contemporary art
Joel and Sherry Mallin
Chairman, Aldrich Museum of Art
Modern art, contemporary art, especially sculpture
Donald Marron
Chairman/CEO, Lightyear Capital
Modern art, contemporary art
Robert Miller
Founder, LVHM
Old Masters, 19th-century paintings, American abstraction
Julie and Edward Minskoff
President, Edward J. Minskoff Equities
Postwar, Pop, and contemporary European art
Raymond Nasher
Chairman of Nasher Company, a realestate development company
Modern art, contemporary art, Oceanic and pre-Columbian art
Victoria and Samuel Newhouse Jr.
Co-owner, Advance Publications
Modern art, contemporary art
Peter Norton
Founder, Peter Norton Computing; trustee, MoMA
Contemporary art
John and Mary Pappajohn
Venture capitalist
Modern art, contemporary art
Stewart and Carol Rahr
President/CEO, Kinray Inc.
Impressionism, modern art
Leonard and Louise Riggio
Chairman, Barnes & Noble
Contemporary art
David Rockefeller
President Emeritus, MoMA
19th-century American art, Impressionism, modern art, porcelain
Donald and Mera Rubell
Hotelier
Contemporary art
Denise and Andrew Saul
Philanthropist
Modern art, contemporary art, especially postwar American, Chinese bronzes
Adam Sender
CEO, Exis Capital Management
Contemporary art
Jerry Speyer and Katherine Farley
President/CEO, Tishman Speyer Properties
Contemporary art
Arnold and Blema Steinberg
Officer, Cleman Ludmer Steinberg
Modern art, contemporary art
Michael and Judy Steinhardt
Founder, Steinhardt Partners; philanthropist
Classical antiquities, modern art, especially drawings
Thomas and Ann Tenenbaum Lee
Head of Thomas H. Lee Partners, private equity firm
Modern art, contemporary art, Egyptian art
Alain Wertheimer
Chairman, Chanel
Modern art
Shelby White
Wife of late philanthropist Leon Levy
Antiquities
Dave and Reba Williams
Former chairman, Alliance Capital Management
American prints
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Daughter of late real-estate magnate, Lewis Rudin
Modern art, contemporary art