George Merck Art Collection (GMAC) was founded in 2013 by American collector and philanthropist George Frederick Mead Merck. Consisting of over a hundred works of art, GMAC is considered one of the most important collections of Light and Space in the southeast. Other focuses in the collection include Minimalism and Emerging Contemporary Art. GMAC is professionally managed and advised by Anna Valverde.

George Merck is a Palm Beach-based collector, philanthropist, and the founder of GMAC. Merck currently serves as trustee of the Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach, FL), as trustee emeritus of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art (Washington D.C.) and as a member of The Collectors Committee for the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.). He has been instrumental in increasing engagement with a younger generation of philanthropists, archive acquisition efforts for several artists, and the creation of the ARTICULATED podcast series at Archives of American Art.  He is the youngest trustee in the history of AAA, as well as the youngest trustee in the history of Norton Museum of Art.