$100-Million Art Collection Benefits 16 Museums
December 7, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Richard S. Ziegler, a private investor who amassed an art collection worth $100-million, has bequeathed his works to 16 museums, reports The New York Times.
Among the beneficiaries are the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. In addition, he donated works to the Museum of Modern Art, where he had been a board member since 1979, the newspaper said.
Mr. Zeigler, who died in March, went to great lengths to discuss with Guggenheim officials what their collection was lacking and how his works would best fit in. Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s chief curator, said, “It was old-fashioned philanthropy.”
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