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Almost three decades ago, a young married couple named Curtice and Bob McCloy started to buy art.  They began modestly by purchasing what they liked (cardinal rule #1) and what they could afford (cardinal rule #2).  Sometimes, cardinal rule # 1 over-ruled their good sense to adhere to cardinal rule # 2.Needless to say, the McCloys had no idea how collecting art would change, shape and ultimately define their lives.
In Patrons Without Peer: The McCloy Collection, an exquisite new art book published by Collector’s Covey in Dallas we as outsiders are able to look into the treasure chest of images that today fill the McCloy’s home and have become fodder for legend.  View several works above in the gallery that accompanies this story.
“Paintings are like life on your walls,” the couple says.  “Art enriches your life and connects you to the best part of the world you love.”The McCloys have an unprecedented number of works by the late Bob Kuhn and 67 of them appear in the book.  You will also see a sizeable assemblage of original Ken Carlsons (45), Tucker Smiths (35), Richard Schmids (33) and William Acheffs (40); memorable pieces by Robert Abbett; and an uncommon selection of still lifes, landscapes, florals, portraits, sporting scenes, and sculpture by Tom Quinn, Clyde Aspevig Tim Shinabarger, Christopher Blossom, Jean Chambers, Len Chmiel, Thomas Aquinas Daly, Walt Gonske, Nancy Guzik, Eldridge Hardie, Sherrie McGraw, the late Wilson Hurley, William Reese, the late Conrad Schwiering, and Matt...