Seattle home to 5 of world's top 200 art collectors

Seattle home to 5 of world's top 200 art collectors

ARTnews magazine is out with its annual list of the world's top 200 art collectors. Seattle has five, San Francisco six, Portland and Vancouver, B.C., none.

Because ARTnews is the only art publication compiling such a list, it always gets attention. Who makes the cut depends on who's doing the recommending, and that comes down to curators, museum directors and critics around the world, along with auction-house and gallery clients -- but only those who are willing to be known. In other words, ARTnews is guessing.

Seattle collectors featured this year are Paul Allen, Barney A. Ebsworth, Elizabeth and Richard Hedreen, Jon and Mary Shirley, and Bill and Ruth True, who share their holdings in a free-admission space known as Western Bridge.