Vera G. List (January 6, 1908 – October 10, 2002) was an American art collector and philanthropist.
She was awarded a 1996
National Medal of Arts
The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and Patronage, patrons of the arts. A prestigious American honor, it is the highest honor given to artists and ar ...
.
Life
She grew up in
Brookline, Massachusetts
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.
She attended
Simmons College.
In 1930 she married Albert A. List and they moved to
New York City in 1945.
Her husband Albert List, died on September 12, 1987 due to heart failure. She had four daughters and 12 grandchildren.
Vera List died in
Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 10, 2002, aged 94.
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Philanthropy
She gave to the Metropolitan Opera, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Jewish Museum, The New School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...
, and American Academy in Berlin.
She help found the New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
History
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Scho ...
.Vera List Center for Art and Politics
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is an American nonprofit research organization and public forum for art, culture, and politics, established in 1992. Vera List was an American art collector and philanthropist.
The Jane Lombard Prize fo ...
at The New School,
References
External links
Oral history interview with Vera List, 1973 Jan. 9
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1908 births
2002 deaths
American philanthropists
Women art collectors