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THE TOP 25 WHO: BRETT AND LESTER LEVY JR., DALLAS ART: Peter Saul, Tony Matelli, Frank Johnson, Thornton Dial, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Yves Klein, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Joe Zucker CV: This under-the-radar pair own a trilogy of major Peter Saul canvases featured in recent retrospectives at the New Museum, NYC, and in Toulouse, France, as well as outsider cartoonist Frank Johnson's entire oeuvre — more than 2,300 pages of notebooks and 131 unbound drawings — currently on long-term loan to the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. WHO: LESTER AND PENELOPE MARKS, HOUSTON ART: Joseph Cornell, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Tony Oursler, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Robert WHO: NANCY NASHER AND DAVID HAEMISEGGER, DALLAS ART: Leo Villareal, Barry Flanagan, Frank Stella, KAWS, Mark di Suvero, Katharina Grosse, Siobhán Hapaska, Sterling Ruby, Leonardo Drew, Antony Gormley, Mimmo Paladino, Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Liam Gillick, Joel Shapiro, Iván Navarro, Thomas Houseago, Tom Friedman, Jim Dine, Huma Bhabha CV: The current owners and operators of NorthPark Center exhibit the monumental sculpture they've acquired over the years in the common areas and proudly call NorthPark "the only shopping museum in the world." Rauschenberg, Radcliffe Bailey, Ruth Asawa, Kerry James Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Cave, Titus Kaphar, Amoako Boafo, Otis Quaicoe, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Michael Ray Charles, Clementine Hunter, Bansky, Robert Pruitt, Betye Saar CV: Texas' most active collectors; regularly hosts receptions and benefits for museums, nonprofits, artists. Among the earliest acquirers of Trenton Doyle Hancock, Angelbert Metoyer, Deborah Roberts, Jamme Holmes. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Corridor Pin, Blue, 1999 Deborah Roberts' Political Lambs in a Wolf's World, 2018 Nick Cave's Soundsuit, 2013 Thornton Dial's The County, 1995 ADAM REICH 55