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49 In the dining room, Scarpa dining table belonged to Katharine's mother and stepfather, Jeff Fort. Pierre Jeanneret chairs with serial codes, designed for Chandigarh, India, administration building, 1950s, sourced from Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Chicago. Front and center, a Surrealist masterpiece, Paul Delvaux's Rosine, 1968. Right, Jamal Cyrus' Blue Alluvial Glue 3 (Timbre), 2022, from Inman Gallery, Houston. In living room, Pierre Augustin Rose sofa from Garde. French antique chairs, 1930s, re-covered in a Scottish wool. Antique Queen Anne side table from Katharine's maternal grandparents. Above the table, Rick Lowe's Untitled, 2026, from Gagosian, NYC; Joseph Cornell's Untitled (Space Objects Box), circa 1958. To the right of the patio doors, Melvin Edwards' Addis A., 2007, from Alexander Gray Associates, New York. past trustee for Blaffer Art Museum. She has also promoted initiatives that honor her late parents, including the 2026 rerelease of her father's Sixty Stories and Forty Stories. And she supported a series of past lectures at the Menil in her mother's memory, as well as annual Inprint writing prizes established in Donald and Marion's honor. " I'd been in New York and in London," Katharine says. "I did my master's degree in London at Sotheby's after being an undergrad in New Mexico, studying contemporary art and art history at the College of Santa Fe. I went in studying photography, then halfway through, started taking art-history classes and fell in love with it. When I graduated, I decided this is something that I really wanted to focus on, so I went on to do my master's degree." Eventually Texas called. Katharine returned to Houston in 2013 and, within two years, launched her art advisory and appraisal service. Introduced by friends who surmised the couple might be a good match, Katharine and her future husband connected over contemporary art. She was impressed that he owned a Damien Hirst and a George Condo — not the usual touchstones of a beginning collector — and sensed they would be compatible. In 2021, they acquired the handsome Rice University/Museum District