Art-loving parents around the US are encouraging their children to build their own art collections. Here’s a peek at the artworks owned by 9-year-old Dakota King from Portland (Photo: Michael Rubenstein)

Encouraged by wealthy, art-loving parents, children are collecting Warhols and even Rembrandts. A few grade-schoolers are even loaning works to major museums, including Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, a coup for a collector of any age. Kelly Crow on their kid-centered tastes, ‘art allowances’ and why auction paddles aren’t toys.

Read full article (The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2007)

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