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PHOTOGRAPHY BY KARINA WITTKAMP Superlatives VIEW FROM THE TOP arbiter of taste COMMUNITY FORWARD. BY NICOLE FREHSÉE P AN ART CONNOISSEUR AT HEART, PAULA CROWN CONTINUES TO MOVE THE aula Crown is an artist, but her paintings probably aren't what first come to mind upon hearing her name. Maybe it's because her family owns the Aspen Skiing Company and The Little Nell, among other Aspen properties. Or because she's an executive at mega-successful investment firm Henry Crown and Company. Or perhaps because she and her husband, business- man James Crown, are among President Obama's top campaign financiers (and personal friends). Nonetheless, Crown's artsy side is revealed with the December release of The Aspen Series, a book to which she contributed, featuring photographs by Walter Niedermayr. "Walter did some courageous things for those photos; he got on a snowmobile and went places photographers can't normally get to," says Crown, who invited the Italian artist to Aspen in 2009 after seeing his work in a New York gallery. She then commissioned a collection of 40 pan- oramic mountain landscapes for exhibition at continued on page 74 Paula Crown in front of a work by Christopher Wool. Pieces of her own, Perforations, are shown leaning against the wall and in front of her on the floor. PEOPLE, CULTURE, STYLE ASPENPEAK-MAGAZINE.COM 73