Henry Art Gallery

The guide to the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle opens with railroad magnate Horace Henry funding a free museum inside his own mansion, open just ten hours a week to almost no visitors, even though he was one of the richest men in the Pacific Northwest. It follows his fortune built on picks, dynamite and a twenty-million-dollar rail contract over Snoqualmie Pass, the death of his son that seems to have changed him, and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair trip that started his collecting. It ends looking up at the roofline James Turrell installation Henry never lived to see.