Rank 20
Alice Walton
61B
Walmart
Fort Worth, Texas
United States
- After graduating from Trinity College in 1971, Walton briefly worked for Walmart as a buyer of children's clothes.
- Her art collecting career began when she was 11 and bought a 25-cent print of Picasso's "Blue Nude."
- Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
- She has focused on curating art, rather than working for Walmart like her siblings, Rob and Jim.
- In 2011, she opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.
- Crystal Bridges features works from the likes of Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Mark Rothko.
- In 2022, the holistic health institute Walton founded in Bentonville a year earlier was renamed the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.