Raymond Nasher
Collector
1921 – 2007
Who was Raymond Nasher?
Raymond Nasher was a Boston Latin School and Duke University alumnus who was an avid art collector. Together with his wife Patsy, he amassed a substantial number of the world's greatest sculptures and various other important pieces. Nasher gave the lead gift for the creation of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas and Duke University's art museum, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. In the early 1960s, Nasher was responsible for founding NorthPark Center, the mall that is currently the second largest in Texas. At the time of its founding, it was the largest climate-controlled, indoor building in the world.
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- Born
- Oct 26, 1921
Boston - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Duke University
- Died
- Mar 16, 2007
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on July 23, 2013
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