{{Short description|American art collector and philanthropist}} {{Infobox person | name = Vera G. List | birth_name = Vera Glaser | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|01|06}} | birth_place = Brookline, Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|10|10|1908|01|06}} | death_place = Greenwich, Connecticut | education = Simmons College | spouse = {{marriage |Albert A. List |1930|September 12, 1987 |end=d.}} | children = 4 | awards = National Medal of Arts 1996 }}
'''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.
==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. Her husband Albert List, died on September 12, 1987, due to heart failure.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Neuffer|first=Elizabeth|date=1987-09-12|title=ALBERT A. LIST, 86, INDUSTRIALIST WHO SUPPORTED MANY CAUSES (Published 1987)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/obituaries/albert-a-list-86-industrialist-who-supported-many-causes.html|access-date=2020-10-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She had four daughters and 12 grandchildren.
Vera List died in Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 10, 2002, aged 94.<ref name=NYT/>
==Philanthropy== She gave to the Metropolitan Opera, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Jewish Museum, The New School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arts.mit.edu/about/council/council-members/ |title=Council Members – Arts at MIT |website=arts.mit.edu |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711101741/http://arts.mit.edu/about/council/council-members/ |archive-date=11 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Brown University, Swarthmore College, and American Academy in Berlin. She help found the New Museum of Contemporary Art.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/nyregion/vera-g-list-94-is-dead-philanthropist-and-collector.html| title=Vera G. List, 94, Is Dead; Philanthropist and Collector| author= Roberta Smith| date=October 13, 2002| work=The New York Times}}</ref> She is the namesake of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.veralistcenter.org/learn/1/about/|title = The Vera List Center Mission}}</ref> and the List Visual Arts Center at MIT.<ref name="LVAC">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://listart.mit.edu/about |website=MIT List Visual Arts Center |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=2021-12-24 |language=en |date=8 January 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-vera-list-13029 Oral history interview with Vera List, 1973 Jan. 9]
{{National Medal of Arts recipients 1990s}}
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