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“Red, Charline and the entire McCombs family mean so much to the Spurs and San Antonio,” said Peter J. Holt, Spurs Sports & Entertainment managing partner.

Through trips he led, she discovered the work of Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, Laura Owens and Jacqueline Humphries, innovators in abstraction, and artists she came to know personally and collect.

In 1950, he married Charline Hamblin, who died in 2019 at 91.

McCombs was 95 and preceded in death by his wife, Charline, in 2019.

For that reason and others, he said, the pandemic — which he and his wife, the painter Charline von Heyl, spent mostly by themselves in Marfa, Texas, where they began living and working off and on in 2007 — ended up being a pivotal reset.