We got to wondering, what kind of images would we enjoy living with?
Glenn hung a TV in the living room, and Paige said, “We’re not going to watch TV here are we?” No, we agreed to play only images on this screen. We tried family photos, which we loved, but we knew those pictures already. We tried streams of Internet photos, but they were too random. So together as husband and wife we set about collecting the world’s greatest art into an awesome assembly to share with others.
A Passion Project Centered Around a Desire to Learn
Paige said, “Oh, I LOVE art! Let me add some paintings.” She did, and we found we loved watching the art change on our TV screen. Inspired, we began assembling a collection of greatest paintings in history. Eventually, we had 500 paintings in our collection, spanning 900 years and representing styles from Medieval to Neoclassic to Cubism and everything in between.
Our friends asked, “Where did you get that?” so often, we decided to package it up for them in a laser-etched gift box. We named it the BillionDollarArtGallery because, even if you could buy these paintings, they would cost many billions of dollars. We added original music by Alex Cap, a Hollywood composer, and we created a web site for phones that provides information about each painting.
Today, thousands of people enjoy the BillionDollarArtGallery. It’s like living in one of the finest museums in the world. We hope that it enriches your cultural life as it has ours, and that you enjoy living with the beauty, the passion, and the stories in these wonderful paintings.