The de facto attics for American design have been university libraries, private European museums, corporate collections, foundations, government institutions and the Library of Congress, to which Charles and Ray Eames donated their papers, drawings and photographic images.
The buyer, the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation, is expected to continue publicizing the coin.
Louisa Stude Sarofim, president of the Menil Collection and Foundation, has big plans.
Mr. Wright made his collection the foundation for a Museum of Democracy for which he hoped to find a home.
Seven years ago, for example, when he decided to donate a drawing collection, the foundation's generosity would have been evident in a gift of dozens, even hundreds, of works.
Enter Underella, a new capsule collection of foundation pieces by Ella Moss designed to be worn under the season's more diaphanous styles, including, of course, Ella Moss's.
Woodner's two daughters, Dian and Andrea, oversee the Ian Woodner Family Collection, a foundation that Woodner established before his death.
The designer's latest project, Burberry Beauty, is a comprehensive collection of foundations, powders, bronzers, lipsticks and eye shadows that were inspired by the label's classic trench coat and by the moody hues of the British climate.
Mr. Soros has never endowed his collection of foundations, but he often gives away enough money in a year to make Open Society the most generous philanthropy in the country after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Investigations of emerging infectious diseases associated with parasites in northern wildlife involved a network of multidisciplinary collaborators and incorporated geographic surveys, archival collections, historical foundations for diversity, and laboratory and field studies exploring the interface for hosts, parasites, and the environment.
"It's been true for decades now that the Broad collections have been actively acquiring works from the postwar period," said Joanne Heyler, the museum's founding director, referring to the Broads' personal collection and their foundation's holdings, both of which will be on display.
