Over the past 20 years, David Stockman, a former Michigan congressman and Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, and his wife, Jennifer, have built a contemporary-art collection anchored by strong examples by Willem de Kooning, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. Jennifer, who is president of the board at the Guggenheim, likes to point out the Richard Princes, bought both before and after his market boomed, and photographs by Jeff Wall and Thomas Struth that fill their sprawling stone house in the gated community of Conyers Farm. Lately the couple has added works by emerging talents, including the painters Tomory Dodge and Matt Greene and the sculptor Andro Wekua. “I love painting, and when I see a great painting by a younger artist, I’m very intrigued,” says Jennifer.

She has observed a “gradual” growth in the number of art enthusiasts in Greenwich, she says. Eschewing the typical Greenwich collector’s discretion, the Stockmans, along with Pamela and Arthur Sanders, opened their home this past March to a VIP group from New York’s contemporary-art fair the Armory Show.

"Jennifer and David Stockman" originally appeared in the July 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's July 2008 Table of Contents.