AMARILLO, Texas, June 17 (UPI) -- Stanley Marsh 3, best known for his role in creating Amarillo's famed Cadillac Ranch art installation, died Tuesday. He was 76.
The beneficiary of his family's vast oil fortune, Marsh devoted his life and money to Texas' art scene, funding the 1974 construction of Cadillac Ranch, a roadside installation of ten Cadillacs buried nose first in Amarillo farmland.