The New York Times reported that, having inherited an estimated $90 million, he went through $80 million of it, with little to show for his expenditures. Among his most high profile follies was the Huntington Hartford Museum, also known as the Gallery of Modern Art, at 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, which he opened in 1964 to showcase his taste in art. The gallery's walls did include works by the prevailing abstract expressionists of the time, whose art he abhorred.