Jane Blaffer Owen (April 18, 1915 – June 21, 2010) was a patron of the arts, author, and heir to the Humble Oil fortune (a predecessor of Exxon-Mobil).
[2] She went on to Bryn Mawr College, Washington School of Diplomacy, and the Union Theological Seminary.
Her husband is a descendant of Utopian industrialist Robert Owen.
She also funded the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum.
[2] She received the Louise Dupont Crowninshield Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2008 for her work on New Harmony and received an honorary doctorate from Purdue University in 2008.