Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Henry Wollman Bloch, Art Philanthropist And Co-Founder Of H&R Block, Dead At 96

The primary beneficiary of Bloch’s largesse has been Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: he spent three years as its board chairman, he and his wife are the name donors on the museum’s 2007 expansion and its 2015-17 renovation, and at the same time the couple gave a collection of 29 major Impressionist paintings to NAMA. – ARTnews



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