Ralph Tracy "Ted" Coe (August 27, 1929 – September 14, 2010) was a notable art collector and scholar, best known for developing modern appreciation of Native American art.[1] "He was kind of the beginning player, enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", noted a curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] His collection of over 2,000 objects of Indigenous art form the basis of the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts collection holdings.