The Ian Woodner Family Collection is a foundation that Ian Woodner

Ian Woodner

Ian Woodner was an American real estate developer, artist and art collector. Mr. Woodner was born in New York City to a Polish immigrant family. He was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota and a master's from Harvard...

 established before his death in 1990. Woodner's two daughters, Dian and Andrea, oversee the Collection.

Ian Woodner, a real estate developer, was one of the greatest art collectors in the United States

United States

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. Besides an extraordinary group of drawings, some of which were acquired by the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

 in Washington in 1991, he amassed a large group of Cycladic works of art. He had a passion for paintings, drawings and prints by the 19th-century French artist Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.-Life:...

 and put together the largest group of Redons in the world. In June of 2000, the foundation gave the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

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nearly 100 paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, prints and illustrated books by Odilon Redon.