But there are no private jets, yachts, mansions or collections of cars or art in his life.
Rather than scanning all his 250 works for objective commentary on society, art or economics, we should value Ruskin for his luminous, sensitive, humanly flawed subjectivity.
He also tackles the debate about whether business school research really matters, and shares his thoughts on management as an art or a science.
And - but Earl Green could never sell his paintings because to an art dealer or a gallery owner, they just looked like psychedelic art from the '60s and they really didn't have much else going for them.
It took the old head of Shearer, or rather his fiercely-accurate right boot, to demonstrate the art of clinical finishing.
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"The canvas I began 10 years ago I shall perhaps complete today or tomorrow, " he once wrote, expressing his belief in art as an organic process.
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The author also helps to cast new light on James's decision, conscious or otherwise, to eschew marriage and lovers in order to safeguard his art and the quiet he needed to be a writer.
Today, visitors can tour the meticulously restored mansion, tour the four gardens, hike the nature trail or explore personal artifacts such as the first president's shoes or his favorite swivel chair in a vast state-of-the-art museum on the grounds.
He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.
Often referred to as "the stripe guy" by American art critics who homed in on his artworks using striped awning canvas or contrasting maxi stripes, in more recent years, Mr. Buren's work has become increasingly architectural and, indeed, monumental.
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When he died in 1951, his will reconfirmed the terms of the indenture, including the stipulation that nothing could ever be moved or changed, to protect his legacy, but also to foreclose any attempt by the Philadelphia art establishment to take over the collection, no longer underappreciated and now enormously valuable.
His concern was never a book's place in the canon or a painting's in art history.
He seems consumed by his own thoughts, whether onscreen or in a piece of music, but there's one crucial key to the success of his art: He never comes off as self-absorbed.
Whether perceived as religious or as evocations of spice markets, their freshness appealed even to people allergic to conceptual art, and his reputation was launched.
By giving promising musicians a platform in his bands, Mr. McBride is doing for younger players what legends like saxophonist Charlie Parker or drummer Art Blakey did for the generation that followed them.
Fascinated by coffee table books on boots as art, and a student of collectible boots and boot history, his niche is to recreate or pay homage to lost classic designs of the 1930s to 1960s.
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However pure his motives, traditional his ultimate values or exemplary his professed commitment to old-school American painting, Eric Fischl is destined to be ever cast as American art's oldest living bad boy.
One collector told me recently that one of the great advantages she found when collecting contemporary art is that, if all else fails, the artist is still around to vouch for his or her work.
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