NEW YORK ¨C Visitors to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, leave appreciative notes on a glass wall near the entrance.
¡°Thanks Alice!¡± reads one. ¡°Merci Alice Walton, pour la vision!¡± reads another.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton founded Crystal Bridges in 2011 in a wooded ravine next to her childhood home, supplying dozens of paintings from her personal collection. Bankrolled by more than $1 billion in donations from her family, the museum attests to the Waltons¡¯ generosity and vast wealth. It¡¯s also a monument to their skill at preserving that fortune across generations.
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