Name Vera List Died October 10, 2002 | Education Simmons College | |
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Vera G. List (1908 Fall River, Massachusetts – October 10, 2002 Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American art collector, and philanthropist. She was awarded a 1996 National Medal of Arts.
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Life
She grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. She attended Simmons College. In 1930 she married Albert A. List and they moved to New York City in 1945. She had four daughters and 10 grandchildren.
She died in Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 10, 2002, aged 94.
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, Swarthmore College, and American Academy in Berlin. She help found the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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