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Slick, Tom, 1916-1962

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dates 1916-1962
city San Antonio
stateTX
sex M
historical notes Tom Slick was a Texas oil man, explorer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist and collected of modern art.

Slick founded the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Southwest Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation.

Slick’s collection included paintings and sculptures by, among others, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, Barbara Hepworth and Isamu Noguchi.

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1950-1960
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The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material see details...
Columbia University Libraries
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East,
Reminiscences of Thomas Baker Slick: oral history, 1951. see details...