Ms. Walton has spent lavishly gathering a representative library of works of America’s best painters. Although it is not a deep collection (not a lot of any one artist’s work), it is broad, offering something by just about every big name in American art. She needs to add a Pollock, a Rothko, maybe someone from the Ashcan School, but I hear Wal-Mart pays a decent dividend. Those paintings will come, possibly when next the art market recedes. Meanwhile, enjoy Theodore Robinson, Georgia O’Keeffe, the Peales, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Frederic Church, Frank Stella, Thomas Moran, and a hundred others. No doubt about it: good art nourishes the soul.

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