Montana Mining Heiress Leaves NY Fortune to Arts
Submitted by Steve on June 23, 2011
From The Wall Street Journal:
Huguette Clark, the Montana copper mining heiress who died in New York last month at 104, has left most of her $400 million fortune to the arts — wealth from the Gilded Age that produced the Rockefellers, Astors and Vanderbilts.
According to her will, obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Clark gave to Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art a prized Claude Monet water-lily painting not seen by the public since 1925.