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출처 American Field INEZ SMITHJANUARY 15 1910 JULY 26 2008 I expect to pass through life but once If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it now and not defer or neglect it as I shall not pass this way again A quote by William Penn English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania I never heard Inez mention this quote though she had many But she lived her life as if she had written it and lived every day to fulfill it There is no way I can do justice to all theaccomplishments and goodness she has shared with so many during her lifetime in a simple letter I will share a few stories of my times with Inez Forty eight Years AgoInez loved to tell this story about Elwin Smith Inez s husband and her going to Fred Bevan s kennel in Waynesboro GA There was this girl working at the kennel Fred and Harold were still out working the dogs She was showing them all the dogs and telling them about each one As they were walking by a kennel with two English Setters they asked What about those two dogs Oh she said they belong to two really rich people who live in Pittsburgh They re really good ones Sherry said Five years later Sherry and I went to work privately for Inez and Elwin Smith Inez told of the first field trial dog they bought in 1941 They had gotten a puppy from Sam Light owner of the Famed Sam L dogs Inez said Tony Skyrockets Pride which they named the puppy won nine consecutive 1st Places The tenth time he didn t even place She said she went to the car and cried her eyes out After Elwin died in 1991 Inez started going to the trials with me She loved nothing better than to climb into the truck and go to a field trial I remember the first long road trip she took with me We left Georgia in late March heading for the Invitational Championship in Conway Arkansas From there we went to the Egyptian Championship the Illinois Championship and the Michigan Championship which by the way Destinare won the later three When we left Inez tried to keep everything in the truck neat clean and organized By the time we got to Michigan she d just throw stuff over her shoulder into the back seat and say What s the use andlaugh Inez and Elwin came up of very modest means Inez worked as a secretary at Knox Glass Company Then when Elwin established his company Elwin G Smith Co she went to work for him doing bookkeeping As Elwin s company was in several different states they had to travel a lot She said the first thing she would do when they got a room was to disinfect it for bed bugs Inez was no stranger to work At the trials if I saddled her horse she would pitch a fit saying You know I m not helpless I can do something around here At the Egyptian Championship she said You know if you would show me how to get the water out of that barrel I could have those dogs fed I said You have to siphon it How do you do that she asked I proceeded to show her how to suck air out of the hose until the water started quickly taking it away from your mouth The next evening I came around the trailer just as she was in the process of siphoning the water She got the water goingok plus filling her lungs and soaking herself I quickly turned away She never knew I had seen anything Everyone who worked for them was treated as family Her love for dogs horses and field trials was her life Every time I would call telling her I had placed a dog she would be so excited you would think it was her first placement When the field trial dogs were retired they would become her house dogs ThePerformer and Destinare were her favorite ones On one of my visits in May she was saying how she missed seeing the dogs and having one in the house So in early June Doug took Private Ryan up for her to see and have him in the house a few days She was just elated Leo Jackson called her in June He said they had a good visit but that she kept reminding him how it was hot down there and to be sure to keep the air conditioner on those dogs During one of my later visits she asked if we had any good derbies for this year I said We have three good ones and one of them is exceptional What about the puppies we have she asked I told her I d sold four of the eight Well don t sell any more until you get a good look at them We ll need some derbies for the next year you know Inez said Who won the masters she asked That was her favorite trial other than her own Georgia Lina Trial I said Doug did I ve got to congratulate Fred and him she said During a conversation with Fred just before I left for the funeral he said You know she called me not long ago to congratulate me for winning the masters The last time Inez rode a horse was in 2004 to watch Leo Jackson run Nickademus at the Georgia Lina Field Trial She was 94 Inez s life wasn t all dogs and field trials She loved other sports including opera and plays She had another life just as active as the dog and horse life She was very fond of all the Pittsburgh teams We d watch or she d listen very intently to the Stanley Cup play off games and be very disappointed when the Penguins lost She loved to fish She tells of the fishing trip to Alaska and how she caught Elwin in the headwith a lure Inez had as good a memory as anyone I ve ever known She would amaze me at all she could recall and the exactness of it I never knew of anyone who could add a column of figures as quickly and without a pencil more exact and quicker than I could with an adding machine She was forever catching my mistakes in by bookkeeping and me with my modern adding machine Inez s intelligence and integrity was to be marveled at Inez was one of the founders of the Longview Nursing Home and served as president until it was sold a few years ago No one knows for sure except Elwin and Inez of all the children they put through school They were very generous supporters of Geneva College and other organizations It is difficult finding out about all the charitable deeds they have done as they were very private about those things Inez as well as Elwin was very strong believers in God She was a member of the Eastern Star and he was a Mason They were members of the St Johns Lutheran Church I d ask the pastors just how long they had been members The would say It was sometime in the early forties they joined this church Inez s death will have a great void in my life and all those who were close to her The sport of field trials has suffered a great loss and she will be dearly missed Her family and friends from the other side of her life will also dearly miss her Inez was a lady first an icon and one of a kind Her mission here on Earth is over Her accomplishments and good deeds will be left for many years to come Inez was laid to rest beside her husband of 61 years Elwin Smith on July 29 2008 at the St Johns Lutheran Church in the shade of a beautiful oak tree They are together again and in God s care now Inez as you were blessed and gifted here on Earth I m sure you will be even more so in Heaven We all love you God Bless Harold RayThere are some very special people who really helped Inez through the last months of her life First were the home care nurses Karen Ivey and Carol There were more but I knew these most Their care was superb Other special people were Roger and Susan Duerksen who d bring meals and others from field trials would also when they could She appreciated Roger s reassurances about medical matters she didn t understand Thanks to Nancy Stroup who served not only as bookkeeper but as companion She always brought Inez to the Georgia Lina Trials as long as Inez could travel The real work horses were her daughter in law Doris Starr grandson Gary Starr and granddaughter Donna Lesondak Doris never missed a day checking on Inez When she couldn t come over you could set your watch by the evening call When Gary Starr who lives in Florida first learned of Inez s illness he came up and spent three months away from his family to help Inez Last but surely not least was Donna She not only did all the administrative work for Inez but has her own family and her mother now to look after Inez said one time I don t know how she does it all Thanks to all Sincerely Harold Ray개인적으로 Setter보다는 Pointer에관심이 많아그냥 지나 가려고 했는데계속 가슴 한 구석이 저려서 않되겠습니다 미국필드의 세터를 이야기할 때 빼놓을 수 없는 스미스 쎄터 켄넬의 주인이자오리지네이터인 98세의 Mrs Inez Smith가지난 7월 26일 세상을 떠났습니다 개인적으로미국 필드 역사상최고의 쎄터라고생각하는 개들이 즐비하고Pinnacle Performer Destinare등 헤아릴 수 없을 정도의 챔피언이 만들어진 곳 수 많은 쎄터 브리더를 만들어 냈던 곳 미사어구를 웬 만큼 동원해서는 스미스 쎄터를 표현하기가 어려울 것 같습니다 그녀의 명복을 빕니다 출처 American Field INEZ SMITHJANUARY 15 1910 JULY 26 2008 I expect to pass through life but once If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it now and not defer or neglect it as I shall not pass this way again A quote by William Penn English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania I never heard Inez mention this quote though she had many But she lived her life as if she had written it and lived every day to fulfill it There is no way I can do justice to all theaccomplishments and goodness she has shared with so many during her lifetime in a simple letter I will share a few stories of my times with Inez Forty eight Years AgoInez loved to tell this story about Elwin Smith Inez s husband and her going to Fred Bevan s kennel in Waynesboro GA There was this girl working at the kennel Fred and Harold were still out working the dogs She was showing them all the dogs and telling them about each one As they were walking by a kennel with two English Setters they asked What about those two dogs Oh she said they belong to two really rich people who live in Pittsburgh They re really good ones Sherry said Five years later Sherry and I went to work privately for Inez and Elwin Smith Inez told of the first field trial dog they bought in 1941 They had gotten a puppy from Sam Light owner of the Famed Sam L dogs Inez said Tony Skyrockets Pride which they named the puppy won nine consecutive 1st Places The tenth time he didn t even place She said she went to the car and cried her eyes out After Elwin died in 1991 Inez started going to the trials with me She loved nothing better than to climb into the truck and go to a field trial I remember the first long road trip she took with me We left Georgia in late March heading for the Invitational Championship in Conway Arkansas From there we went to the Egyptian Championship the Illinois Championship and the Michigan Championship which by the way Destinare won the later three When we left Inez tried to keep everything in the truck neat clean and organized By the time we got to Michigan she d just throw stuff over her shoulder into the back seat and say What s the use andlaugh Inez and Elwin came up of very modest means Inez worked as a secretary at Knox Glass Company Then when Elwin established his company Elwin G Smith Co she went to work for him doing bookkeeping As Elwin s company was in several different states they had to travel a lot She said the first thing she would do when they got a room was to disinfect it for bed bugs Inez was no stranger to work At the trials if I saddled her horse she would pitch a fit saying You know I m not helpless I can do something around here At the Egyptian Championship she said You know if you would show me how to get the water out of that barrel I could have those dogs fed I said You have to siphon it How do you do that she asked I proceeded to show her how to suck air out of the hose until the water started quickly taking it away from your mouth The next evening I came around the trailer just as she was in the process of siphoning the water She got the water goingok plus filling her lungs and soaking herself I quickly turned away She never knew I had seen anything Everyone who worked for them was treated as family Her love for dogs horses and field trials was her life Every time I would call telling her I had placed a dog she would be so excited you would think it was her first placement When the field trial dogs were retired they would become her house dogs ThePerformer and Destinare were her favorite ones On one of my visits in May she was saying how she missed seeing the dogs and having one in the house So in early June Doug took Private Ryan up for her to see and have him in the house a few days She was just elated Leo Jackson called her in June He said they had a good visit but that she kept reminding him how it was hot down there and to be sure to keep the air conditioner on those dogs During one of my later visits she asked if we had any good derbies for this year I said We have three good ones and one of them is exceptional What about the puppies we have she asked I told her I d sold four of the eight Well don t sell any more until you get a good look at them We ll need some derbies for the next year you know Inez said Who won the masters she asked That was her favorite trial other than her own Georgia Lina Trial I said Doug did I ve got to congratulate Fred and him she said During a conversation with Fred just before I left for the funeral he said You know she called me not long ago to congratulate me for winning the masters The last time Inez rode a horse was in 2004 to watch Leo Jackson run Nickademus at the Georgia Lina Field Trial She was 94 Inez s life wasn t all dogs and field trials She loved other sports including opera and plays She had another life just as active as the dog and horse life She was very fond of all the Pittsburgh teams We d watch or she d listen very intently to the Stanley Cup play off games and be very disappointed when the Penguins lost She loved to fish She tells of the fishing trip to Alaska and how she caught Elwin in the headwith a lure Inez had as good a memory as anyone I ve ever known She would amaze me at all she could recall and the exactness of it I never knew of anyone who could add a column of figures as quickly and without a pencil more exact and quicker than I could with an adding machine She was forever catching my mistakes in by bookkeeping and me with my modern adding machine Inez s intelligence and integrity was to be marveled at Inez was one of the founders of the Longview Nursing Home and served as president until it was sold a few years ago No one knows for sure except Elwin and Inez of all the children they put through school They were very generous supporters of Geneva College and other organizations It is difficult finding out about all the charitable deeds they have done as they were very private about those things Inez as well as Elwin was very strong believers in God She was a member of the Eastern Star and he was a Mason They were members of the St Johns Lutheran Church I d ask the pastors just how long they had been members The would say It was sometime in the early forties they joined this church Inez s death will have a great void in my life and all those who were close to her The sport of field trials has suffered a great loss and she will be dearly missed Her family and friends from the other side of her life will also dearly miss her Inez was a lady first an icon and one of a kind Her mission here on Earth is over Her accomplishments and good deeds will be left for many years to come Inez was laid to rest beside her husband of 61 years Elwin Smith on July 29 2008 at the St Johns Lutheran Church in the shade of a beautiful oak tree They are together again and in God s care now Inez as you were blessed and gifted here on Earth I m sure you will be even more so in Heaven We all love you God Bless Harold RayThere are some very special people who really helped Inez through the last months of her life First were the home care nurses Karen Ivey and Carol There were more but I knew these most Their care was superb Other special people were Roger and Susan Duerksen who d bring meals and others from field trials would also when they could She appreciated Roger s reassurances about medical matters she didn t understand Thanks to Nancy Stroup who served not only as bookkeeper but as companion She always brought Inez to the Georgia Lina Trials as long as Inez could travel The real work horses were her daughter in law Doris Starr grandson Gary Starr and granddaughter Donna Lesondak Doris never missed a day checking on Inez When she couldn t come over you could set your watch by the evening call When Gary Starr who lives in Florida first learned of Inez s illness he came up and spent three months away from his family to help Inez Last but surely not least was Donna She not only did all the administrative work for Inez but has her own family and her mother now to look after Inez said one time I don t know how she does it all Thanks to all Sincerely Harold Ray개인적으로 Setter보다는 Pointer에관심이 많아그냥 지나 가려고 했는데계속 가슴 한 구석이 저려서 않되겠습니다 미국필드의 세터를 이야기할 때 빼놓을 수 없는 스미스 쎄터 켄넬의 주인이자오리지네이터인 98세의 Mrs Inez Smith가지난 7월 26일 세상을 떠났습니다 개인적으로미국 필드 역사상최고의 쎄터라고생각하는 개들이 즐비하고Pinnacle Performer Destinare등 헤아릴 수 없을 정도의 챔피언이 만들어진 곳 수 많은 쎄터 브리더를 만들어 냈던 곳 미사어구를 웬 만큼 동원해서는 스미스 쎄터를 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February 18 2007By CAROL KINOKent and Vicki Logan at their private museum in Vail ColoThe Rubell Family Collection in Miami THREE years ago Mickey Cartin one of Connecticut s biggest contemporary art collectors began feeling dissatisfied For years he had been a trustee at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford his hometown and had given money to other museums But he had grown frustrated with the general inefficiencies he perceived from conflicts among trustees to a tendency to make creative decisions by committee It was becoming more and more difficult for me to see how gifts that I was making were being used he said in an interview Then one day in 2004 Steven Holmes the curator for Mr Cartin s collection happened upon an empty storefront just down the street from the museum Three months and a $25 000 renovation later Mr Cartin had his own 4 000 square foot exhibition space where for a year and a half he mounted shows of work from his own collection which ranges from coolly contemporary masters like Josef Albers and Agnes Martin to obsessive outsiders like Adolf Wolfli and Joe Coleman I got a big kick out of doing this Mr Cartin said It got a lot of people in our town talking He has since vacated the space but he continues to organize shows focused around artists he collects and admires like a retrospective of Mr Coleman s work that opened at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York last September and is now at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris While he continues to donate money to museums he wrote in an e mail message he is now much more inclined to support specific projects than the general needs of entire institutions Mr Cartin is not alone In recent years a growing number of private collectors have been opening all manner of exhibition sites from casual warehouse spaces to full fledged museums to show off their holdings and assert their aesthetic views often subsidized by enviable tax benefits The trend has been hastened by an enormous flow of disposable income and an insatiable public interest in art not to mention keeping up with the Joneses And then there are the practical considerations given that so many artists are now working on an outsize scale room size installations or attention demanding video art even a mansion doesn t really cut it as an exhibition space Art world savants like to point out that the United States has a long history of privately founded institutions including colossuses like the Frick Collection in New York and the Barnes Foundation in Merion Pa But not all are enthralled by the current explosion The growth of these spaces has impacted tremendously upon public institutions said Roland Augustine president of the Art Dealers Association of America and a New York dealer Because galleries and artists generally prefer to sell to museums he explained a collector who founds one may gain an advantage It seems highly unlikely that in a century s time big institutions presenting a broad art historical narrative will be eclipsed by small idiosyncratic museums focused around a single collector s taste But for the moment this new crop of exhibition spaces suggests a power shift within the art world one that is leveling the playing field between collectors and museum professionals driving up art prices and allowing wealthy private citizens an ever greater say in terms of how their gifts will be used Not all of those citizens are forthcoming about their long term intentions In September the industrialist Mitchell P Rales opened the semiprivate Glenstone Museum alongside his home in Potomac Md where he shows works by artists including de Kooning Warhol Pollock and Matisse in a Gwathmey Siegel building Though Mr Rales is believed to have a long term public institution in mind he has released virtually no information about his plans and no one from his organization was willing to speak for attribution about the broad outlines something hard to imagine from the director of a new public art institution Early next year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art plans to open a museum within a museum a project largely financed and named for the billionaire collector Eli Broad that will integrate art from his vast collection and the holdings of his nonprofit art foundation with the museum s collection in a new building designed by Renzo Piano The project seems to give a collector extraordinary leverage over a civic institution especially in view of Mr Broad s current refusal to say whether his art will ultimately go to the Los Angeles museum Also in a class by itself is Crystal Bridges a new museum of American art for which Alice L Walton the Wal Mart heiress has been snapping up masterworks Plans call for it to open in the fall of 2009 in Bentonville Ark with the aim of drawing art tourists to the locale where the first Wal Mart was founded in 1962 Already she has raised the hackles of the museum world s old guard by buying Asher Durand s 1849 Kindred Spirits for $35 million from the New York Public Library a work some felt should stay in New York and offering $68 million for Thomas Eakins s Gross Clinic owned by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia Local museums eventually outmaneuvered her Constructing what is in effect a museum to one s own taste may strike some as a vainglorious hobby And those involved allow that seeing your beloved possessions enshrined this way is indeed good for the ego Art collecting becomes an expression of self said Allan Schwartzman an art adviser who helped create the Rachofsky House in Dallas a Richard Meier design for the collectors Howard and Cindy Rachofsky and the Inhotim Center for Contemporary Art a Shangri La nestled in a Brazilian forest for the mining magnate Bernardo Paz It s a form of self portraiture Or as Marc Glimcher president of the New York mega gallery PaceWildenstein put it It s the world s most expensive MySpace Among the most visible is the Rubell Family Collection started by Mera and Donald Rubell prominent Miami collectors of post 1980s art Frustrated by the inability to see their collection all in one place We would actually travel to visit our own work in various exhibitions Ms Rubell said they moved it to a former Drug Enforcement Administration warehouse in Miami a decade ago In 2004 they revamped and expanded their galleries and added a cafe and a Phaidon bookshop Today their gallery space open five days a week is as large as that of the Whitney Museum And some of the shows have been influential like last year s Poles Apart a show of paintings by young Polish artists that created considerable buzz among curators and collectors Ms Rubell said the gallery along with its educational programs and library is run by a nonprofit foundation whose purpose is to further exhibitions of the collection The works themselves are owned by the Rubells It gives us a lot of freedom in terms of acquisitions she said Most collectors who create exhibition spaces are likely to take a similar tack said Andrew M Grumet an associate with the New York law firm Herrick Feinstein who specializes in tax issues wealth planning and nonprofits The collector can write off the foundation s operating costs if the foundation also owns the collection any artwork it buys or sells is generally exempt from sales and capital gains taxes Those who retain private ownership of the artwork like the Rubells may still be able to win tax exempt status if they make a strong case that the foundation does more than just promote the art s market value Which may be one reason so many of those foundations promote educational and art loan programs There are exceptions like Mr Cartin who said he finances his exhibitions with after tax dollars The Rubells example has transformed Miami s art scene In 1999 Martin Margulies set up a warehouse space to show his holdings of contemporary and vintage photography video sculpture and installation work since then many of the city s collectors have opened exhibition outlets including Dennis and Debra Scholl Ella Cisneros and Rosa de la Cruz Most recently the real estate developer Craig Robins who rotates his collection between his various offices and properties hired the Madrid based architects Abalos Herreros to create a more permanent exhibition site I think it would be a very good exercise for me as a collector to think about the collection in a museum context Mr Robins said To some becoming a more public institution might spoil all the fun Six years ago Carol and Arthur Goldberg founded an appointment only exhibition space in an old furniture factory in Mount Kisco N Y We decided in our final years Mr Goldberg said that we d like to see a lot of the art that we ve had in storage art that includes work by Sol LeWitt Louise Nevelson Gerhard Richter and Kiki Smith Each of the Goldbergs shows has been organized by outside curators By contrast Kent and Vicki Logan who built a 7 500 square foot private museum next to their house in Vail Colo prefer to organize exhibitions on their own Each year Mr Logan who calls the project one of my great passions assembles a display drawn from their holdings of Warhol Ed Ruscha Jeff Koons Damien Hirst and others In many cases a separate space reassures collectors that their art is cared for in a climate controlled setting one that also allows works to be shown to best advantage Today these private spaces can also loom as plums for larger museums The Logans promised their little institution together with their house and a substantial portion of their collection to the Denver Art Museum along with $10 million for the museum s endowment and $5 million to maintain the property On Feb 24 the Art Dealers Association plans a panel discussion at the Museum of Modern Art on The Museum as Collector and the competition posed by p February 18 2007By CAROL KINOKent and Vicki Logan at their private museum in Vail ColoThe Rubell Family Collection in Miami THREE years ago Mickey Cartin one of Connecticut s biggest contemporary art collectors began feeling dissatisfied For years he had been a trustee at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford his hometown and had given money to other museums But he had grown frustrated with the general inefficiencies he perceived from conflicts among trustees to a tendency to make creative decisions by committee It was becoming more and more difficult for me to see how gifts that I was making were being used he said in an interview Then one day in 2004 Steven Holmes the curator for Mr Cartin s collection happened upon an empty storefront just down the street from the museum Three months and a $25 000 renovation later Mr Cartin had his own 4 000 square foot exhibition space where for a year and a half he mounted shows of work from his own collection which ranges from coolly contemporary masters like Josef Albers and Agnes Martin to obsessive outsiders like Adolf Wolfli and Joe Coleman I got a big kick out of doing this Mr Cartin said It got a lot of people in our town talking He has since vacated the space but he continues to organize shows focused around artists he collects and admires like a retrospective of Mr Coleman s work that opened at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York last September and is now at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris While he continues to donate money to museums he wrote in an e mail message he is now much more inclined to support specific projects than the general needs of entire institutions Mr Cartin is not alone In recent years a growing number of private collectors have been opening all manner of exhibition sites from casual warehouse spaces to full fledged museums to show off their holdings and assert their aesthetic views often subsidized by enviable tax benefits The trend has been hastened by an enormous flow of disposable income and an insatiable public interest in art not to mention keeping up with the Joneses And then there are the practical considerations given that so many artists are now working on an outsize scale room size installations or attention demanding video art even a mansion doesn t really cut it as an exhibition space Art world savants like to point out that the United States has a long history of privately founded institutions including colossuses like the Frick Collection in New York and the Barnes Foundation in Merion Pa But not all are enthralled by the current explosion The growth of these spaces has impacted tremendously upon public institutions said Roland Augustine president of the Art Dealers Association of America and a New York dealer Because galleries and artists generally prefer to sell to museums he explained a collector who founds one may gain an advantage It seems highly unlikely that in a century s time big institutions presenting a broad art historical narrative will be eclipsed by small idiosyncratic museums focused around a single collector s taste But for the moment this new crop of exhibition spaces suggests a power shift within the art world one that is leveling the playing field between collectors and museum professionals driving up art prices and allowing wealthy private citizens an ever greater say in terms of how their gifts will be used Not all of those citizens are forthcoming about their long term intentions In September the industrialist Mitchell P Rales opened the semiprivate Glenstone Museum alongside his home in Potomac Md where he shows works by artists including de Kooning Warhol Pollock and Matisse in a Gwathmey Siegel building Though Mr Rales is believed to have a long term public institution in mind he has released virtually no information about his plans and no one from his organization was willing to speak for attribution about the broad outlines something hard to imagine from the director of a new public art institution Early next year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art plans to open a museum within a museum a project largely financed and named for the billionaire collector Eli Broad that will integrate art from his vast collection and the holdings of his nonprofit art foundation with the museum s collection in a new building designed by Renzo Piano The project seems to give a collector extraordinary leverage over a civic institution especially in view of Mr Broad s current refusal to say whether his art will ultimately go to the Los Angeles museum Also in a class by itself is Crystal Bridges a new museum of American art for which Alice L Walton the Wal Mart heiress has been snapping up masterworks Plans call for it to open in the fall of 2009 in Bentonville Ark with the aim of drawing art tourists to the locale where the first Wal Mart was founded in 1962 Already she has raised the hackles of the museum world s old guard by buying Asher Durand s 1849 Kindred Spirits for $35 million from the New York Public Library a work some felt should stay in New York and offering $68 million for Thomas Eakins s Gross Clinic owned by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia Local museums eventually outmaneuvered her Constructing what is in effect a museum to one s own taste may strike some as a vainglorious hobby And those involved allow that seeing your beloved possessions enshrined this way is indeed good for the ego Art collecting becomes an expression of self said Allan Schwartzman an art adviser who helped create the Rachofsky House in Dallas a Richard Meier design for the collectors Howard and Cindy Rachofsky and the Inhotim Center for Contemporary Art a Shangri La nestled in a Brazilian forest for the mining magnate Bernardo Paz It s a form of self portraiture Or as Marc Glimcher president of the New York mega gallery PaceWildenstein put it It s the world s most expensive MySpace Among the most visible is the Rubell Family Collection started by Mera and Donald Rubell prominent Miami collectors of post 1980s art Frustrated by the inability to see their collection all in one place We would actually travel to visit our own work in various exhibitions Ms Rubell said they moved it to a former Drug Enforcement Administration warehouse in Miami a decade ago In 2004 they revamped and expanded their galleries and added a cafe and a Phaidon bookshop Today their gallery space open five days a week is as large as that of the Whitney Museum And some of the shows have been influential like last year s Poles Apart a show of paintings by young Polish artists that created considerable buzz among curators and collectors Ms Rubell said the gallery along with its educational programs and library is run by a nonprofit foundation whose purpose is to further exhibitions of the collection The works themselves are owned by the Rubells It gives us a lot of freedom in terms of acquisitions she said Most collectors who create exhibition spaces are likely to take a similar tack said Andrew M Grumet an associate with the New York law firm Herrick Feinstein who specializes in tax issues wealth planning and nonprofits The collector can write off the foundation s operating costs if the foundation also owns the collection any artwork it buys or sells is generally exempt from sales and capital gains taxes Those who retain private ownership of the artwork like the Rubells may still be able to win tax exempt status if they make a strong case that the foundation does more than just promote the art s market value Which may be one reason so many of those foundations promote educational and art loan programs There are exceptions like Mr Cartin who said he finances his exhibitions with after tax dollars The Rubells example has transformed Miami s art scene In 1999 Martin Margulies set up a warehouse space to show his holdings of contemporary and vintage photography video sculpture and installation work since then many of the city s collectors have opened exhibition outlets including Dennis and Debra Scholl Ella Cisneros and Rosa de la Cruz Most recently the real estate developer Craig Robins who rotates his collection between his various offices and properties hired the Madrid based architects Abalos Herreros to create a more permanent exhibition site I think it would be a very good exercise for me as a collector to think about the collection in a museum context Mr Robins said To some becoming a more public institution might spoil all the fun Six years ago Carol and Arthur Goldberg founded an appointment only exhibition space in an old furniture factory in Mount Kisco N Y We decided in our final years Mr Goldberg said that we d like to see a lot of the art that we ve had in storage art that includes work by Sol LeWitt Louise Nevelson Gerhard Richter and Kiki Smith Each of the Goldbergs shows has been organized by outside curators By contrast Kent and Vicki Logan who built a 7 500 square foot private museum next to their house in Vail Colo prefer to organize exhibitions on their own Each year Mr Logan who calls the project one of my great passions assembles a display drawn from their holdings of Warhol Ed Ruscha Jeff Koons Damien Hirst and others In many cases a separate space 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