Patron Of The Arts

Roy R. Neuberger has passed away at age 107.

He was a financial wizard and a huge patron of the arts. If you enjoy MOMA, you are viewing work donated by Neuberger.

Reuters: 20th century financial titan Neuberger dies at 107

In 1967, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller offered to build a museum at the New York State University at Purchase that would serve in part as a repository for Neuberger's collection. The museum opened in May 1974.


He donated other major works in his collection -- which included paintings by Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Milton Avery, to New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art.