Collectors & Collecting

John Pappajohn and his wife, Mary, have created a public sculpture park for their hometown of Des Moines in Iowa, and filled it with works from their collection of contemporary art. They take Louise Nicholson on a tour. Photographs by Brian Smale.

John and Mary Pappajohn like giving: ‘We give outright’, they declare. One recent gift was especially generous: all the sculptures for a park named after them in their home town...