The first time Ann O’Connor Williams Robinson laid eyes on Jim Harithas, he was pinning a guy to the ground.It was 1974. Harithas had recently moved from New York to Houston to direct the Contemporary Arts Museum. That day inside CAM, Harithas was removing a maquette of one of the painter Leo Tanguma’s murals to make way for his first show at the museum, and Tanguma wasn’t having it. He punched Harithas, and they were tussling on the museum’s loading dock when Ann walked by.A striking, stylish brunette, Ann was studying art history at Rice University and owned an art gallery next door to the museum. She had macho culture in her blood, too, as a scion of one of the state’s oldest ranching, oil,…
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