Alice Walton is building major museum in Bentonville, Ark

June 10, 2007 10:15 am

Alice Walton made a deal last November to buy Thomas Eakins’s 1876 masterpiece “The Gross Clinic” from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia for $68 million. Walton (Sam’s daughter and Wal-Mart heiress) wanted it not for her living room but to hang in the public museum she’s creating in her hometown of Bentonville, Ark

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