Roy Neuberger

Top art collector Roy Neuberger dies at 107 in NY   

NEW YORK

One of the nation's top modern art collectors has died. Roy Neuberger (NOOH'-ber-ger) was 107.
Neuberger Berman investment firm spokesman Rich Chimberg says Neuberger died Friday at his home in New York City's Pierre Hotel.
Neuberger survived Wall Street's three major crises with enough money to build one of the nation's largest collections of major contemporary art, including hundreds of works by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper.
They're now scattered at 70 institutions in 24 states -- many at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, north of New York City.
Neuberger once said that collectors should acquire contemporary art and keep it, while giving the public access.
He said he collected art because he loved it.
In 2007, Neuberger received the National Medal of Arts