Talk:Alice Walton

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KGV  (Talk) 09:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: This article makes the person sound like a bitch, especially with her ultra conservative politics and killing a woman.
Is there not some better things to write about her?
The frankness about the crimes is a good thing, but I wonder why she drinks so much? 71.237.232.90 (talk) 01:23, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  character 

message: Where are the sources on the crimes she has been convicted of? 68.119.81.55 09:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? 

message: The philanthropy section doesn't have a single source cited.  -Xcuref1endx (talk) 20:51, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Eh? But I just got another email from her saying how she wants to share her money with me! She included her Wikipedia link, so it must be my lucky day! Actually, it's just more abuse of Wikipedia and Wikipedia don't care. There should be some way to add a temporary warning to the abused Wikipedia articles--especially before the spammers get smart enough to vandalize the articles to support their scams more closely. Shanen (talk) 09:09, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philanthropy 

message: The following has elements of OR & can't go into the bio as is. Nevertheless, it's fun & interesting, and almost certainly true in its essentials:
Tulsa is rich in Walmart stores, and the pastor of a church my long-term Tulsa sister used to belong to noticed a long vacant one on East 71st St, on the way west to the Arkansas River.  On a hunch, he called Walmart in Bentonville to inquire about converting the store to a church & community center.
Tulsa World story: Open Bible Fellowship Moves Into Former Wal-Mart Store,  February 25, 1998. I happened to drive by the church, on my way to the River Park in Feb 2017, and asked my sister about it.
A woman with a deep-country Arkie accent answered, and the pastor asked about the vacant store. "Well, how much can you afford to pay" he was asked. He replied that he'd hoped the company would donate the old store. "Can't do it. Shareholders." he was told, but the woman did some calculations. "We could sell it for $2.5 million," she said, adding that that was about the value of the underlying land. Pastor Joel Budd talked to his congregation and then to bankers, who agreed to a loan, and Walmart agreed to sell for $2.3 million.. The store was remodelled, and attracts up to 1,000 worshippers on busy Sundays. Pastor Budd noted that there's always plenty of free parking.  
Budd later found out that the woman who'd answered the phone, figured a price and sold him the old store was Alice Walton, by far the wealthiest woman in America. He's  been dining out on the story ever since. Pete Tillman (talk) 20:37, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alice Walton Tulsa anecdote 

message: While this is a well-documented personal problem & failing, I question whether it should occupy 1/3 of the lede of our wikibio.  For instance, no lede mention of her extensive Art collection.  --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight to drunk driving in lede? 

message: Hi! I am working to update this page throughout and I noticed the formatting differs from other biography articles I have seen on Wikipedia. For instance, this article would better conform with other Wikipedia biographies if Education and career was separated into different sections. To that end I have created a proposed Early life and education section.
Walton was born in Newport, Arkansas. She graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, with a B.A. in economics and finance in 1971. 
==Early life and education==
Walton was born in Newport, Arkansas. She graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, with a B.A. in economics and finance in 1971.
My hope is that an editor can create this new section, remove these details from the existing Education and career section and rename the existing section Career. 
Are there editors who can assist with this? I will not direct edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared above. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 15:24, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Kt2011. Thanks for providing a citation for Alice Walton's educational background—I will add that to the article. But as for the remainder of your request, why should it be approved? I'm not convinced that the entirety of the "Education and career" section should be removed. It should be edited to be a little less laudatory, while still giving credit where credit is due. Some more citations for the unsourced paragraphs would be helpful also. But I don't think it's necessary to throw out the entire section. Altamel (talk) 22:47, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, Altamel! I apologize for any confusion. To be clear: I do not recommend deleting the career material from the article. Rather, I ask that the two sentences mentioned in my request above be broken off into their own section titled Early life and education. Then we can rename the section currently called Education and career to simply Career. Is that agreeable? Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 21:38, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. In that case, my question is, why? Stylistically, I'm not a fan of level 2 sections that only have two sentences—paragraphs flow better. But perhaps you have some compelling reason for doing so? Altamel (talk) 18:38, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Altamel, Here's where I am coming from with this request: After reviewing other biographies on Wikipedia, it appeared to me that many of them contained Early life and education sections with details on birthplace, schooling, etc. Certainly this section would be short, but perhaps it could be further developed later. Also, it struck me as odd that the article would include Ms. Walton's birthplace under Education and career, as one's birth is not connected to one's education nor their career. Thanks for considering, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:16, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough,  Altamel (talk) 03:42, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Altamel, thank you for making these edits. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:29, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Early life and education 

message: Hi! Continuing my work to update this article, I noticed Career needed attention. Most of Career is unsourced. Additionally, it is outdated. For example, Ms. Walton listed Rocking W Ranch for sale in 2015 and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, to focus on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. I created a proposed Career section that tidies up the existing content, sources everything and adds a few extra details. 
In her early career, Walton was an equity analyst and money manager for First Commerce Corporation and headed investment activities at Arvest Bank Group. She was also a broker for E.F. Hutton. In 1988, Walton founded Llama Company, an investment bank, where she was president, chairwoman and CEO. 
Walton was the first person to chair the Northwest Arkansas Council and played a major role in the development of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, which opened in 1998. At the time, the business and civic leaders of Northwest Arkansas Council found a need for the $109 million regional airport in their corner of the state. Walton provided $15 million in initial funding for construction. Her company, Llama Company, underwrote a $79.5 million bond. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority recognized Walton's contributions to the creation of the airport and named the terminal the Alice L. Walton Terminal Building. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001.
In the late 1990s, Llama Co. closed and, in 1998, Walton moved to a ranch in Millsap, Texas, named Walton's Rocking W Ranch. An avid horse-lover, she was known for having an eye for determining which 2-month-olds would grow to be champion cutters. Walton listed the farm for sale in 2015 and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, citing the need to focus on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Bentonville, Arkansas, art museum she founded that opened in 2011.
In his 1992 autobiography Made in America, Sam Walton remarked that Alice was "the most like me—a maverick—but even more volatile than I am."
==Career==
In her early career, Walton was an equity analyst and money manager for First Commerce Corporation and headed investment activities at Arvest Bank Group. She was also a broker for E.F. Hutton. In 1988, Walton founded Llama Company, an investment bank, where she was president, chairwoman and CEO. 
Walton was the first person to chair the Northwest Arkansas Council and played a major role in the development of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, which opened in 1998. At the time, the business and civic leaders of Northwest Arkansas Council found a need for the $109 million regional airport in their corner of the state. Walton provided $15 million in initial funding for construction. Her company, Llama Company, underwrote a $79.5 million bond. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority recognized Walton's contributions to the creation of the airport and named the terminal the Alice L. Walton Terminal Building. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001.
In the late 1990s, Llama Co. closed and, in 1998, Walton moved to a ranch in Millsap, Texas, named Walton's Rocking W Ranch. An avid horse-lover, she was known for having an eye for determining which 2-month-olds would grow to be champion cutters. Walton listed the farm for sale in 2015 and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, citing the need to focus on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Bentonville, Arkansas, art museum she founded that opened in 2011.
In his 1992 autobiography Made in America, Sam Walton remarked that Alice was "the most like me—a maverick—but even more volatile than I am."
Are there editors who can assist with this? (Pinging Altamel, who responded to previous edit request). I will not direct edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared above. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:03, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi , I've just looked at your request and I've implemented your edits. However, I'd advise you to look at the wording of 'avid horse-lover' - I know this was already in the article, but could this be better phrased so that it sticks to NPOV? It reads as if it were an autobiography. st170e 23:53, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, st170e! Thank you for making these edits. I have marked the edit request as answered rather than declined, since everything I asked for has been done. As to your point about the phrase "avid horse-lover", this language was already in the article, so I left it in my draft. However, if it is problematic, or you think it is NPOV, I say we remove that phrase altogether. That way, the sentence can read: "She was known for having an eye for determining which 2-month-olds would grow to be champion cutters." If that sounds agreeable to you, would you mind making the edit? Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:26, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Career 

message: Hi! Continuing along. Art is fairly well developed. There are, however, a few places that could be tidier. Here's what I'm thinking. 
*The last sentence of the first paragraph says Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art "is envisioned as … ". It seems a bit off to refer to a museum that has been open for nearly six years as "envisioned as". I propose we rewrite: "Crystal Bridges opened in November 2011 with hundreds of millions of dollars in art housed in 50,000 square feet of gallery space."
*In the middle of the second paragraph, this sentence does not read encyclopedic in tone: "Since almost every collector was at the auction, no one could figure out who on the phone was bidding such high prices." I propose we rewrite: "Collectors at the well-attended auction questioned who was placing successful bids over the telephone."
*In the following sentence, would it make sense to list some of the art that was bought that day? I propose we rewrite: "It was later learned that Walton purchased at least $20 million worth of art that day, including “Spring,” by Winslow Homer; “A French Music Hall,” by Everett Shinn; “The Studio,” by George Bellows; “The Indian and the Lily,” by George de Forest Brush; and “October Interior,” a by Fairfield Porter."
*I also suggest we add sources throughout this section
*Lastly, is it necessary to mention that Ms. Walton's 2005 purchase of Asher Brown Durand's Kindred Spirits was "a sealed-bid auction"?
This draft below includes all of the aforementioned changes.
Walton purchased her first piece of art when she was about ten years old. It was a reproduction of Picasso's Blue Nude she got from her father's Ben Franklin Dime-Store. She and her mother would often paint watercolors on camping trips. Her interest in art led to her spearheading the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the heart of Bentonville, Arkansas. Crystal Bridges opened in November 2011 with hundreds of millions of dollars in art housed in 50,000 square feet of gallery space.
In December 2004, the art collection of Daniel Fraad and wife, Rita, went up for public auction at Sotheby's in New York. Collectors at the well-attended auction questioned who was placing successful bids over the telephone. It was later learned that Walton purchased at least $20 million worth of art that day, including “Spring,” by Winslow Homer; “A French Music Hall,” by Everett Shinn; “The Studio,” by George Bellows; “The Indian and the Lily,” by George de Forest Brush; and “October Interior,” a by Fairfield Porter. She bid for most of the items while on a three-year-old gelding named IC LAD preparing to compete in the first qualifying round of the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity at the Will Rogers Coliseum in Ft. Worth, Texas.
In 2005, Walton purchased Asher Brown Durand's celebrated painting, Kindred Spirits, for a purported US$35 million. The 1849 painting, a tribute to Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, had been given to the New York Public Library in 1904 by Julia Bryant, the daughter of Romantic poet and New York newspaper publisher William Cullen Bryant (who is depicted in the painting with Cole). She has also purchased works by American painter Edward Hopper, as well as a notable portrait of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale. In 2009 at an undisclosed price, Crystal Bridges museum acquired Norman Rockwell's iconic "Rosie the Riveter" painting for its permanent collection.Rosie the Riveter 
John Wilmerding, an advisor and board member to Crystal Bridges said Walton has collected the work of some artists in depth, quietly buying substantial bodies of work by Martin Johnson Heade, Stuart Davis, George Bellows and John Singer Sargent. Walton's attempt to quit smoking led to the purchase of two great smoking paintings by Alfred Maurer and Tom Wesselman.  In a 2011 interview, she spoke about acquiring great works by other artists. She described Marsden Hartley as "one of my favorite artists—he was a very complex guy, somewhat tormented, but a very spiritual person, and love the emotion and the feel and the spirituality of his work".  She went on to say, "and Andrew Wyeth—the mystery and loneliness that is expressed. How do you paint loneliness?"
==Art==

Walton purchased her first piece of art when she was about ten years old. It was a reproduction of Picasso's Blue Nude she got from her father's Ben Franklin Dime-Store. She and her mother would often paint watercolors on camping trips. Her interest in art led to her spearheading the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the heart of Bentonville, Arkansas. Crystal Bridges opened in November 2011 with hundreds of millions of dollars in art housed in 50,000 square feet of gallery space.
In December 2004, the art collection of Daniel Fraad and wife, Rita, went up for public auction at Sotheby's in New York. Collectors at the well-attended auction questioned who was placing successful bids over the telephone. It was later learned that Walton purchased at least $20 million worth of art that day, including “Spring,” by Winslow Homer; “A French Music Hall,” by Everett Shinn; “The Studio,” by George Bellows; “The Indian and the Lily,” by George de Forest Brush; and “October Interior,” a by Fairfield Porter. She bid for most of the items while on a three-year-old gelding named IC LAD preparing to compete in the first qualifying round of the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity at the Will Rogers Coliseum in Ft. Worth, Texas.
In 2005, Walton purchased Asher Brown Durand's celebrated painting, Kindred Spirits, for a purported US$35 million. The 1849 painting, a tribute to Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, had been given to the New York Public Library in 1904 by Julia Bryant, the daughter of Romantic poet and New York newspaper publisher William Cullen Bryant (who is depicted in the painting with Cole). She has also purchased works by American painter Edward Hopper, as well as a notable portrait of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale. In 2009 at an undisclosed price, Crystal Bridges museum acquired Norman Rockwell's iconic "Rosie the Riveter" painting for its permanent collection.Rosie the Riveter 
John Wilmerding, an advisor and board member to Crystal Bridges said Walton has collected the work of some artists in depth, quietly buying substantial bodies of work by Martin Johnson Heade, Stuart Davis, George Bellows and John Singer Sargent. Walton's attempt to quit smoking led to the purchase of two great smoking paintings by Alfred Maurer and Tom Wesselman.  In a 2011 interview, she spoke about acquiring great works by other artists. She described Marsden Hartley as "one of my favorite artists—he was a very complex guy, somewhat tormented, but a very spiritual person, and love the emotion and the feel and the spirituality of his work".  She went on to say, "and Andrew Wyeth—the mystery and loneliness that is expressed. How do you paint loneliness?"
Are there editors who can assist with this? (Pinging Altamel and st170e, who responded to previous edit requests). I will not direct edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared above. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:38, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This request was not answered, so I opened it again. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:   Spintendo  ᔦᔭ  21:36, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Art 

message: Hi! An IP editor added the 2011 automobile incident and more detail about the 1998 incident. I wanted to bring this to the attention of User:GRuban and User:Paul F Villerius, who have discussed these issues with me here previously. As discussed on this talk page and Biographies of living persons in 2017, the 2011 incident never resulted in charges and was, in fact, expunged from the record. I still believe this issue may fall under BLP guidelines. Here's the part of the guideline that I believe applies. WP:BLP: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives." As GRuban wrote here previously, "the due process resulted in (a) no charges, and even (b) expungement. Even without the expungement I don't think random traffic stops deserve mention in an encyclopedia article".
I will not direct edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared above. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:33, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: --GRuban (talk) 19:45, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

text: Thank you for calling Kt2011,  but I'm a bit confused as to why this needs my attention.  Care to elucidate? Paul F Villerius (talk) 16:42, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again, User:GRuban! User:Paul F Villerius: It was simply a courtesy ping since you were involved in discussions here previously. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 13:53, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: December 2019

message: Hi! An editor added  this edit to the introduction of the article. This does not seem typical to me; can editors look and see if this should be removed? I'm bringing this to the attention of User:GRuban as I believe this issue may fall under BLP guidelines. Also, this incident is discussed later in the article. I welcome input from editors who are experienced in this area. I will not direct edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared above. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:06, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . Eww. Yes, that was a pretty blatant BLP violation. Thanks. --GRuban (talk) 21:00, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again, User:GRuban! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 22:38, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Introduction edit  

message: Hi! An IP editor added this edit to "Personal life". This topic has been discussed on this talk page and Biographies of living persons in 2017, and again on this talk page in December 2019. The 2011 incident never resulted in charges and was, in fact, expunged from the record. I still believe this issue may fall under BLP guidelines. Here's the part of the guideline that I believe applies. WP:BLP: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives." Also, User:GRuban wrote here previously, "the due process resulted in (a) no charges, and even (b) expungement. Even without the expungement I don't think random traffic stops deserve mention in an encyclopedia article".
I will not direct edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared on this talk page. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 17:11, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed as per previous discussion. --GRuban (talk) 17:25, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks yet again, User:GRuban! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Personal Life section (new edit) 

message: I'm removing the part that says her family is largely Republican because it is not accurate: https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterloeb/2020/10/07/walmarts-political-dichotomy-is-no-surprise/?sh=1ed82b1c2981  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DiscoStu42 (talk • contribs) 01:39, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walton Family Donations Lean Democrat 

message: Hi! An IP editor added these edits to "Personal life." This topic has been discussed several times on this talk page  in 2017, 2019, and 2020, as well as Biographies of living persons in 2017. The 2011 incident never resulted in charges and was, in fact, expunged from the record. I still believe this issue may fall under BLP guidelines. Here's the part of the guideline that I believe applies. WP:BLP: 
*"Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives." 
Also, User:GRuban wrote here previously, "the due process resulted in (a) no charges, and even (b) expungement. Even without the expungement I don't think random traffic stops deserve mention in an encyclopedia article".
I will not directly edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared on this talk page. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 16:33, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Re-re-removed, as above. I don't recall if I asked, Kevin, would you have occasion to ask your principals whether they own and would be willing to release some images under a free license, like https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/? Or if you ever actually meet them and they would pose nicely for a photograph that you could take then upload? Or if you video chat, and could take a screenshot, likewise? Because there are quite a few articles listed on Walton Family that sadly lack an image: Bill Laurie; Nancy Walton Laurie; Whitney Ann Kroenke; Bud Walton; Josh Kroenke; Ann Walton Kroenke; Christy Walton; Lukas Walton; John T. Walton If you could so obtain one or more free images, we'd appreciate it. Not a requirement, but it would help everyone who reads any of these articles. Could you ask? --GRuban (talk) 19:37, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi User:GRuban, thank you so much for reviewing the recent IP edits and for removing the BLP issue we've discussed several times now. As to your question on images, I apologize but I do not have any images that I can currently release under a free license. I will review the licensing information in the link you provided here and keep an eye open for opportunities where I may be able to secure such photos. I hope you understand. Thank you. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:21, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Personal Life section (October 2021 edit) 

message: What is alice walton's email name? 116.206.31.64 (talk) 17:53, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  curiosity 

message: Hello I received an email stating you are wanting to BLESS me with money there are so many scams ,I am afraid to trust it anything. if this is not true please forgive me ,if you are in search on me reply back 
Skeptic 2600:8800:16:BA00:30D0:4BF4:DD8B:517C (talk) 08:34, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enlightening 

message: Hi! My next request is for the Art section. In the updated section below, I've incorporated my suggested changed with the existing article content: 
* I added details about Alice Walton's interest in art as a child and early art purchases, and how it led to the creation of Crystal Bridges.
* At the end, I included a brief mention of other artists whose works Walton has purchased.
* The second paragraph was a single prose line sentence, so I incorporated it with the third paragraph which was also about Walton's art collecting.
* Citations 1 and 3 are named elsewhere in the article, so I did not include the full references below. #1 is this article from The New Yorker and #3 is this piece from W Magazine.
* I did some citation clean-up after noticing that the article from The New Yorker had two separate citations, so I gave them all the same ref name. Another link to an article from The Nation was dead so I updated it.
 
Walton and her mother would often paint watercolors on camping trips. The first piece of art Walton purchased was a print of Picasso's Blue Nude when she was ten years old. In the late 1980s, she purchased a pair of display-quality Winslow Homer watercolors. Her interest in art led to the Walton Family Foundation developing the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The architect Moshe Safdie designed the 200,000 square foot museum, which was built on 120 acres of Walton family land. The museum opened in 2011 and has been visited more than 5 million times as of 2021. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Walton said, "The motivation for Crystal Bridges was access for all and particularly for people who never had it."  
 
In December 2004, Walton purchased art sold from the collection of Daniel Fraad and Rita Fraad at Sotheby's, in New York. She acquired Asher Brown Durand's celebrated painting, Kindred Spirits, in a sealed-bid auction for a purported US$35 million in 2005. The 1849 painting, a tribute to Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, had been given to the New York Public Library in 1904 by Julia Bryant, the daughter of Romantic poet and New York newspaper publisher William Cullen Bryant, who is depicted in the painting with Cole. She has also purchased works by American painters Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, as well as a notable portrait of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, in preparation for the opening of Crystal Bridges. In 2009, Walton acquired Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" for $4.9 million.
 
Walton's attempt to quit smoking inspired her to purchase a painting reminiscent of an earlier painting by John Singer Sargent by Alfred Maurer which depicts a full-length woman smoking. Another painting, by Tom Wesselmann, is titled "Smoker #9" and depicts a hyper realistic, disembodied hand and mouth smoking a cigarette.
 
In a 2011 interview, she spoke about acquiring great works by other artists. She described Marsden Hartley as "one of my favorite artists-he was a very complex guy, somewhat tormented, but a very spiritual person, and I love the emotion and the feel and the spirituality of his work." She went on to say, "and Andrew Wyeth-the mystery and loneliness that is expressed.  How do you paint loneliness?"
 
Other artists whose work Walton has purchased include Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Kehinde Wiley, and  Titus Kaphar. 
 
I invite editors to review and give feedback or suggest changes. If you'd like to see all changes I plan to request, you can see them here. User:GRuban, are you up for reviewing another one of my requests? 
 
I will not directly edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared on this talk page. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:34, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I think I added the content you wanted, but in a different order. Also a picture from your 2017 request! If I missed something, or you want other changes, please ping. --GRuban (talk) 23:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Art 

message: Hi! I've got a few more changes to suggest for the article. 
*Move "In 1998, Walton moved to a ranch in Millsap, Texas, named Walton's Rocking W Ranch. An avid horse-lover, she was known for having an eye for determining which 2-month-olds would grow to be champion cutters. Walton listed the farm for sale in 2015 and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, citing the need to focus on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art." from Career to Personal life
:*I think these details are more representative of her personal interests than career interests, and the information about where she has lived is more appropriate in the Personal life section. 
*Add "She moved back to Bentonville in 2020." to Personal life
:*If the information about the ranch is moved, I think this could go on the end of that paragraph. 
*Add notable recognition. I've collected a few of these that I think have sourcing adequate for inclusion and listed them in the box below. I am not sure if they fit better in their own section or maybe as part of Personal life?
Below is how I imagine the Personal life section would look with the moves and addition, and the recognitions that could be added to the article. 
 
Personal life
 
Walton married a prominent Louisiana investment banker in 1974 at age 24, but they were divorced 2 years later. According to Forbes, she married "the contractor who built her swimming pool" soon after, "but they, too, divorced quickly". 
 
Walton has been involved in multiple automobile accidents, one of them fatal. She lost control of a rented Jeep during a 1983 Thanksgiving family reunion near Acapulco and plunged into a ravine, shattering her leg. She was airlifted out of Mexico and underwent more than two dozen surgeries; she suffers lingering pain from her injuries. In April 1989, she struck and killed 50-year-old Oleta Hardin, who had stepped onto a road in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1998, she hit a gas meter while driving under the influence of alcohol. She paid a $925 fine.
 
In 1998, Walton moved to a ranch in Millsap, Texas, named Walton's Rocking W Ranch. An avid horse-lover, she was known for having an eye for determining which 2-month-olds would grow to be champion cutters. Walton listed the farm for sale in 2015 and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, citing the need to focus on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She moved back to Bentonville in 2020.
 
Recognition
 
*Time magazine most influential people in the world, 2012
*Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art Medal, 2013
*International Women's Forum hall of fame inductee, 2018
*Getty Medal, 2020
  
 
One other question: the picture in the Infobox is quite old, would editors be open to replacing it with the picture seen here? I've got permission to donate it to Wikimedia, and wanted to check in before I go through that process. 
 
Feedback and questions are welcome here or on my Talk page. 
 
 Thank you for all of your help here and with Rob Walton's birthday! If you've got time for one more request, your help is much appreciated.  
 
As always, I will not directly edit this page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page and declared on this talk page. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:52, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Will look at the other edits, and probably implement. Re the picture question, depends on who "editors" will be! Let me direct you to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Ana_Ularu_on_HotNews_Romania.jpg. To summarize, three years ago, I uploaded an image of a Romanian actress for our article about her. I do that sort of thing occasionally. She didn't like it, and asked that it be removed. I said we wouldn't do that, as it was an accurate and not terrible image, but if she could release one she liked better we'd be happy to replace it with that better one. Just this year, she did that, releasing a noticeably better image. I was grateful, and as promised replaced it basically everywhere (we've got short articles about her in 13 languages), and when she asked that the first one be deleted completely, I nominated it for deletion, thinking "other editors" would agree. I was wrong! The older image is still in use on the DE (German) wikipedia article about her, and a couple of editors said they (1) didn't like to do things just because article subjects asked, and (2) actually preferred the older image, because it makes her look more human. So ... I, personally, would be glad to replace the current Alice Walton image with the one you suggest, to me both are equally good, so we might as well use the one that article subject prefers. If you upload it and release it properly, I will try to do that. However, I am not the only voice here, and as demonstrated in the case I have described and linked, there is a non-zero chance that "other editors" will disagree. --GRuban (talk) 17:09, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wikipedia never ceases to amaze! I really appreciate the context and heads up. I'll go ahead and get the donation process started and let you know when it's up. Meantime, let me know if you have any questions about the edits as you're reviewing. Thanks! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 15:45, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  The photo has been uploaded here and the release process is complete. Thanks! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:19, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

text: This is terrific, thank you! Happy to have the other image stick around, and if you'd like to add the honorary degree, that would be great. Sounds like you already have a source for that, but just in case, here is another. Thanks again! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 21:43, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life and recognition 

message: Hi editors, I noticed that an editor recently made an edit similar to others made in the past. This content has been discussed fairly often (in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021, as well as on the Biographies of living persons noticeboard in 2017) and each time has been removed for ultimately being non-encyclopedic and going against this clause in WP:BLP: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives."
, would you be willing to revert this change? As always, I won't make direct changes due to my conflict of interest. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 13:30, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Reverted, mainly because "many" was unsourced. --GRuban (talk) 16:31, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! Appreciate your assistance. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 17:31, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent Personal life edits 

message: Hi editors, I noticed that a pair of edits were recently made that are pretty clear vandalism, adding a random name and phone number.  
 
, I hate to bother you again so soon, but would you be willing to revert this change? As always, I won't make direct changes due to my conflict of interest. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:13, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted it. Thanks! (Reverting clear vandalism is allowed by anyone per WP:COIADVICE, but I appreciate that you also wanted to do everything unambiguously by the book, so pinging someone about this was a good choice as well.) DanCherek (talk) 16:38, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you very much! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 20:11, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent vandalism 

message: Hello editors, I noticed some recent edits by an IP editor that seem to be pretty clear cases of vandalism, changing dates and the abbreviation for the United States.  would either of you be willing to review and revert these changes? I'd appreciate it. Due to my COI I'll hold off on fixing this myself. Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 16:07, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: , thanks for pointing this out! DanCherek (talk) 16:16, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the help! Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:18, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits