George Wells with a work by Rashid Johnson from his collection Photo: Ben Duggan / LotLine George Wells, the art collector and business consultant, has taken it upon himself to make his alma mater, Morehouse College, a cultural institution with a high-profile art collection. Through a promised gift from Wells worth around $1m, the private historically Black men’s college in Atlanta, Georgia will receive works by Mickalene Thomas, Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, McArthur Binion, and Ivy Haldeman. “It really was born out of the fact that my husband and I, we don’t have children, but we wanted to form some sort of lasting legacy,” Wells tells The Art Newspaper. The founder and chairman of the consultancy Wells Group of New York, who also currently serves as the CFO of the online dental care company Quip, adds: “I work so much with startups and companies that are disrupting their spaces, and I thought, ‘Let’s disrupt the art world by making Morehouse a cultural institution befitting a contemporary art collection.’”