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Kay Kimbell, entrepreneur and benefactor of the Kimbell Art Museum, was born in Oakwood, Leon County, Texas on June 15, 1886, the son of Benjamin B. and Mattie (Jones) Kimbell. He attended the public schools in [[Whitewright, Texas]], but quit school in the eighth grade to work as an office boy in a grain-milling company there, where he later founded the Beatrice Milling Company. This firm grew into Kimbell Milling Company, the pilot organization of diverse interests that Kimbell later founded or directed. |
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Kay Kimbell (1886-1964) was born in [[Whitewright, Texas]]. As a young boy, he went to work at a grain mill located in [[Sherman, Texas]]. He rose from office boy to the owner of the mill, which eventually became known as the Kimbell Milling Company. Kimbell eventually became the head of a food service corporation that included flour, feed, and vegetable oil mills, grocery stores, and an insurance company. He and his wife Velma began collecting art, which became a passion for them. Kimbell especially liked to purchase works by artists from the Renaissance, eighteenth and nineteenth century American painters, and French impressionists. By the 1930s, the Kimbells or their agents routinely travelled to Europe in order to purchase paintings. They eventually moved from Sherman to [[Fort Worth, Texas]] so that Kimbell could be closer to the management offices of his expanding business enterprises. In 1935, the Kimbells established the Kimbell Art Foundation in Fort Worth which laid the groundwork for the modern [[Kimbell Art Museum]], one of the nation's major art museums. |
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At the time of his death he was the head of more than seventy corporations, including flour, feed, and oil mills, grocery chains, an insurance company, and a wholesale grocery firm. In addition to pursuing business interests, Kimbell collected art. He established the Kimbell Art Foundation in Fort Worth in 1935 and at his death left his fortune to the foundation, with directions to build a museum of the first class in Fort Worth, the [[Kimbell Art Museum]]. The collection of art that Kimbell and his wife amassed included many fine works by late Renaissance, French nineteenth-century, and American nineteenth-century artists, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century English painters such as Frederic Leighton and Thomas Gainsborough. |
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The Kimbells' home in [[Fort Worth, Texas]] was often visited by touring groups before the museum was completed, and a great many of the works in their collection were continuously on loan to area colleges and universities, libraries, and churches. Kimbell married Velma Fuller on December 24, 1910. They had no children. Kimbell died on April 13, 1964, in Fort Worth and was buried in Whitewright, but was later reburied in Fort Worth. |
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==References== |
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*[http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/KK/fki11.html '''Handbook of Texas Online'''] |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.kimbellart.org/index.cfm '''Kimbell Art Museum'''] |
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Kay Kimbell, entrepreneur and benefactor of the Kimbell Art Museum, was born in Oakwood, Leon County, Texas on June 15, 1886, the son of Benjamin B. and Mattie (Jones) Kimbell. He attended the public schools in Whitewright, Texas, but quit school in the eighth grade to work as an office boy in a grain-milling company there, where he later founded the Beatrice Milling Company. This firm grew into Kimbell Milling Company, the pilot organization of diverse interests that Kimbell later founded or directed.
At the time of his death he was the head of more than seventy corporations, including flour, feed, and oil mills, grocery chains, an insurance company, and a wholesale grocery firm. In addition to pursuing business interests, Kimbell collected art. He established the Kimbell Art Foundation in Fort Worth in 1935 and at his death left his fortune to the foundation, with directions to build a museum of the first class in Fort Worth, the Kimbell Art Museum. The collection of art that Kimbell and his wife amassed included many fine works by late Renaissance, French nineteenth-century, and American nineteenth-century artists, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century English painters such as Frederic Leighton and Thomas Gainsborough.
The Kimbells' home in Fort Worth, Texas was often visited by touring groups before the museum was completed, and a great many of the works in their collection were continuously on loan to area colleges and universities, libraries, and churches. Kimbell married Velma Fuller on December 24, 1910. They had no children. Kimbell died on April 13, 1964, in Fort Worth and was buried in Whitewright, but was later reburied in Fort Worth.