Richard Mellon Scaife Leaves Art to Westmoreland, Brandywine Museums
- July 14, 2014 11:20
The wealth, land and art collections of billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, the late owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, will be distributed among two foundations, a trust, an art museum and a conservancy, according to his will.
The will does not specify any individuals as benefactors, and lists only one sum, $15 million, which will go to the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art for maintenance and management of a conservancy Scaife built on the grounds of his childhood home. The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA., and Brandywine Conservancy near Philadelphia will split Scaife's art collection, according to the will.
Scaife, an heir to the Scaife and Mellon fortunes, died on July 4, a day after his 82nd birthday.