Dominique de Menil was a French-American art collector, philanthropist, founder of the Menil Collection and an heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1986.
Dominique de Menil
De Menil with gallery model, Houston, 1973
Strake and Jones Halls, designed by Philip Johnson, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Southeast corner of the Menil Collection, Houston
The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.
Menil Collection
One corner of the Menil Collection
Interior of the Byzantine Fresco Chapel showing the glass church