Posted
12:03 PM
by Gene
We learn (and this was a very underreported story because we hadn't seen it before) that
Trammell Crow, the real-estate developer, has died, and we must quote from the last two grafs of his
Paper of Re-CORD obit as they speak for themselves:
Mr. Crow also came up with the idea for a bronze sculpture erected in 1995 on a downtown Dallas plaza of three cowboys and 70 six-foot-high longhorn steers. The local art community sneered. Cynics suggested he was really trying to forestall a new hotel on the site that could compete with one he owned nearby. The historically inclined groused that Dallas, unlike nearby Fort Worth, was never really a cow town.
“I have about 8 or 10 pieces from Rodin in my buildings here,” Mr. Crow said in an interview with The New York Times. “Under their sort of criticism, we shouldn’t have any sculpture from Rodin in Dallas. Rodin never even came to Dallas.”