“You have to have an office, so why not look at a Jasper Johns rather than a reproduction?” Marron said in a 1999 interview with Fortune magazine.
”He got involved before the huge escalation in prices,” Catie Marron said.
Marron was elected president of the board of the Museum of Modern Art in 1985, serving until 1991. He was also a life trustee. In 2002, he donated 44 works from the post-merger collection to the midtown Manhattan museum.
Homeless Advocate
An advocate for the homeless, he supported the Coalition for the Homeless, created in 1981 to provide direct services to men, women and children without shelter in New York City’s five boroughs.
He married his first wife, the former Gloria Swope, in 1961. They had two children, Jennifer Ann Marron and Donald Baird Marron Jr., an economist who was acting director of the Congressional Budget Office during the administration of George W. Bush.
Catie Marron was chairwoman of the New York Public Library from 2004 to 2011. They married in 1985 and had two children, Serena and William.
“Every single bone in his body was decent. He was very close with his family,” Catie Marron said. “One of his favorite things to do was to come home and have a drink with me in front of the fireplace. As a father and husband he was deeply loved.”
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