Texas museum gets $100 million

Caroline Weiss Law, whose father founded the oil company that later became Exxon Mobil, has willed more than $100 million in endowments and artwork to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

Law, who died on her 85th birthday Dec. 24, left 52 major contemporary artworks, valued between $60 million and $85 million, and $25 million to establish an endowment at the museum.

Included in the collection are works by Joan Miro, Adolph Gottlieb, Henri Matisse and Jackson Pollock, along with Pablo Picasso’s “Seated Woman” (1963) and “Two Women in Front of a Window” (1927).