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"WHO IS THE CINDY SHERMAN OF FRANCE? WHO IS THE DIANE ARBUS OF ENGLAND? … IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING TO THE WORLD OF ART HIS- TORY, AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO." — Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl rich Florentine art of the Baroque period. It is now the largest private collection of its kind in the U.S. The collection went on a jewel-box tour to five American museums from 2008 to 2015. It was timed to be on view during the grand opening of new buildings for the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento (a $100 million addition by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects), and the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia. Aside from collecting, Haukohl has also funded research into another well-known family of patrons: the Medicis. He details the mission of the Italian-based Medici Archive Project: "This is a project I co-established 15 years ago with two other collectors and we are cataloging in Florence 400 years of Medici history [medici.org]." The Blaffer exhibition jump-started the Haukohl family friendship with Dominique de Menil, as well as the Blaffer clan. "We immediately became great, fast friends in our family," Haukohl says. "Jane Blaffer Owen and Dominique de Menil were both were my mother's age. Dominique, Jane, and my mother spent time together, so I spent time with the second generation: Janie Owen, Jane's daughter, who unfortunately passed away a few years ago, and Annie Owen." Tess Haukohl, his 99-year-old mother, still remains one of Houston's grande dames. The warm Houston welcome was fueled by New York-based Robert Manning (who was on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Bertina Suida Manning; their $33 million Suida-Manning Collection of 78