Editing J. Paul Getty (section)

===Art collection===
Getty's first forays into collecting began in the late 1930s, when he was inspired by the collection of 18th-century French paintings and furniture of the landlord of his New York City penthouse, Amy Guest, a relation of [[Sir Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|page=72}} A fan of 18th-century France, Getty began buying furniture from the period at reduced prices because of the depressed art market. He wrote several books on collecting, including ''Europe and the 18th Century'' (1949), ''Collector's Choice: The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey through Europe'' (1955) and ''The Joys of Collecting'' (1965). His stinginess limited the range of his collecting because he refused to pay full price. Getty's companion in later life, Penelope Kitson, said, "Paul was really too mean ever to allow himself to buy a great painting."<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|page=84}} Nonetheless, at the time of his death he owned more than 600 works valued at more than $4&nbsp;million, including paintings by [[Rubens]], [[Titian]], [[Thomas Gainsborough|Gainsborough]], [[Renoir]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Degas]], and [[Monet]].<ref name="NYTobit"/> Getty's reluctance to donate any more artworks to [[Los Angeles County]] after he realized how his first donations had been shabbily presented at the [[Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art]] caused [[Edward W. Carter]] to orchestrate the fundraising effort for the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]].<ref name="MargaretLeslieDavis">{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Margaret Leslie|title=The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles|date=2007|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520925557|page=[https://archive.org/details/culturebrokerfra00davi/page/29 29]|url=https://archive.org/details/culturebrokerfra00davi|url-access=registration|access-date=August 30, 2016}}</ref> During the 1950s, Getty's interests shifted to [[Greco-Roman]] sculpture, which led to the building of the [[Getty Villa]] in the 1970s to house the collection.<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|pages=86–87}} These items were transferred to the [[Getty Museum]] and the Getty Villa in Los Angeles after his death.