“We have learned a lot from listening and talking to artists. They see things differently. Their work is what's going on. They may not be able to predict the future, but they make statements that say where it's going, and it often does.”

—Edythe Broad
 

Eli Broad is a renowned business leader who built two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up over a five-decade career in business. He is the founder of both SunAmerica Inc. and KB Home (formerly Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation). Today Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, are devoted to philanthropy as founders of The Broad Foundations, which they established to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science, and the arts. The Broad Foundations, which include The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Broad Art Foundation, have assets of $2.5 billion.
Over the past four decades the Broads have built two of the most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art worldwide: The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection and the collection of The Broad Art Foundation. The two collections together include approximately 2,000 works by more than 150 artists.
Mr. Broad is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 was named chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honor by the Republic of France. In October 2007 Mr. Broad received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.

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