The Logans believe that contemporary art should be seen when it is still current. "You’re more remembered for what you gave back than what you took away," says Kent, who in 1997 gave a fractional gift of 350 pieces to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2001, the Logans donated a similarly structured gift of more than 200 works to the Denver Art Museum, and this year they donated the remaining 300 artworks in their collection to DAM (which DAM will receive upon their deaths) as well as a cash legacy of $15 million, a $10 million endowment and their Vail home and private gallery. Sources say that the donation is worth about $60 million.

The Logans are building a house in Scottsdale, Arizona, to be completed in the fall of 2008, that will house approximately 100 pieces from their collection. There won’t be a separate gallery building as in Vail but there will be four gallery spaces in the house.

Recently, Kent and Vicki were at a Manhattan gallery opening where they snapped up a painting by a Cuban-born artist, Enrique Martinez Celaya. "What do you want to buy next?" someone asked them.

"I don’t want to buy anything," said Kent.

"But," responded Vicki with a smile, "that doesn’t mean we won’t."