David Booth

AUSTIN, TEXAS–Collecting for a mere six years, MoMA board-member David Booth (founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, and co-founder with former wife, Suzanne Deal Booth, of the Friends of Heritage Preservation) has already made the Artnews Top 200. Rumors swirl around his professed intent to donate his Lake Austin home for civic use. All the old and new icons of the 20th and 21st century figure in Booth’s robust, impeccable, and dynamic holdings: Picasso, Rodin, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Bell, Ugo Rondinone, Jean Dubuffet, Chuck Close, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Isamu Noguchi, James Turrell, Michael Heizer, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois (a startling pair of Eye Benches), Anish Kapoor, and Anselm Kiefer (represented by the epic lead sculpture, Uraeus, which originally graced New York’s Rockefeller Center plaza in 2018, before being installed on Booth’s Austin estate). Significantly, this collector does not go in for tame or understated artworks: many are site-specific commissions and/or multi-ton sculptures, which required a special crane or cranes to lift and site them onto Booth’s prime property. 

ART:

Picasso, Rodin, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Bell, Ugo Rondinone, Jean Dubuffet, Chuck Close, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Isamu Noguchi, James Turrell, Michael Heizer, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer

CV:

Booth’s Lake Austin home, Paradox Cove, with its adjoining 56-acre sculpture garden rivals in green space, ambition, and monumental, important sculpture, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and may be in the coming years a Mecca for the public to encounter heroically scaled modern and contemporary art.