G. David Thompson

George David Thompson (March 20, 1899 – June 26, 1965) was an American investment banker, industrialist, and modern art collector, based in Pittsburgh.

[2] In 1960, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf was established with the purchase of 88 works by Paul Klee from Thompson's collection, brokered by Basel art dealer Ernst Beyeler.

[5] Eventually Thompson gave the Carnegie Museum of Art more than 100 artworks, including paintings by Adolph Gottlieb, Josef Albers, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Alberto Burri, Jean Metzinger, Carlo Carrà, Francis Picabia, David Smith, Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Isamu Noguchi, Jean-Desiré-Gustave Courbet, Adolphe Monticelli, James Lambdin, David Blythe, and John Kane.

[5] He gave New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) works by Claes Oldenburg, Victor Vasarely, Jules Olitski, Henry Moore, and Pablo Picasso's early masterpiece Two Nudes (1906).

[1][5][6] His son, G. David Thompson Jr., died in 1958, and two Henry Moore sculptures, one to Harvard University, the other to the Carnegie Museum of Art, were given in his memory.