The art works from the West Collection are on long-term loan to SEI, the financial services firm Al West founded 40 years ago. Al West and his daughter Paige have built the collection in a 15 year period with SEI's audience in mind, but also with the sole mission of finding the most compelling contemporary works available by leading international  artists.   The foremost goal of the West Collection is to meet young artists who are creating challenging and inventive work and to present an experience of this new art to the public.  At any given time 1,200 works from the West Collection are installed at the SEI Corporate Campus.  Additional loans are made back to artists for exhibitions as well as to various museums and universities internationally as well as in the Philadelphia area.   Loans have been made in recent years to the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The   Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, just to name a few.